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cmxc
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 Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:38 am Post subject: Korean racism rears ugly head again |
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While Koreans want the world to be aware of and sensitive to their culture, they often show a stunning lack of sensitivity and awareness toward other cultures. Black-face performances on Korea’s public broadcasting company (KBS) demonstrate that Korea still has a long way to go.
Will they ever get it?
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/culture/2014/02/201_150883.html
This comes on the heels of the public uproar over the racists cigarette advertisements using Monkeys back in October of 2013
Korean cigarette firm pulls 'racist' monkey ads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24638074 |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| It’s entirely inappropriate for 21st century television to feature people wearing blackface makeup, but KBS ― Korea’s state-run broadcaster ― must have missed the memo, or indeed the twentieth century. |
Don't agree. It all depends on how it's done. This clip from the Uk series come fly with me (2010) didn't get any complaints. Probably because the comedy came from the woman's personality not the fact she was black. I assume the gag concert sketch did the opposite and hence was offensive to some people. As with all comedy IMO, there should be no hard and fast rules (like the one above) about what's acceptable and what's not
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guavashake
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| If you're in blackface while cracking jokes about everything but black people, is it still racist? |
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metalhead
Joined: 18 May 2010
Location: Toilet
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| Why would a white person get upset over non-white people wearing blackface? That's racist! |
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r2b2ct
Joined: 14 Jun 2013
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| It always depends on how it's done. I don't think most people have a problem if the makeup actually tries to look realistic, and the comedy is not just laughing at the blackface. But when you literally just paint your face black and put on a crappy wig, it pretty insulting. |
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rainman3277
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| but what does Snoop Dogg think? |
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Jonephant
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: Seoul
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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| optik404 wrote: |
| If you're in blackface while cracking jokes about everything but black people, is it still racist? |
Racist? I don't know.
Stupid? Yes. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:02 am Post subject: |
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No, they'll never get it because:
those who do the blackface, by and large, love the black culture and want to emulate it
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blacks have longer memories about the blackface, Jim Crow laws and TOBA etc can't see that and won't see blackface as adulation
therefore
blacks have to do blackface, like Louis Armstrong did in Mardi Gras '45 and tell the world: "Hey, this stuff is childish."  |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Blackface more of an American issue? I'm not sure it's a globally understood thing. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Blackface more of an American issue? |
Yes, but Americans expect their issues to become global issues. It's the same reason it's "unacceptable" for Koreans to sell 흑형치킨: Americans have joked about that topic, and those jokes hurt African Americans' feelings, so now the entire world needs to be sensitive about it or be lectured. |
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aq8knyus
Joined: 28 Jul 2010
Location: London
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Blackface more of an American issue? I'm not sure it's a globally understood thing. |
There is a place in the UK where they do blackface as part of a festival celebrating the defeat of African slavers that had raided their town.
In the Netherlands they have Zwarte Piet.
That aside though I think most western countries know it is offensive. |
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aq8knyus
Joined: 28 Jul 2010
Location: London
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
| Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Blackface more of an American issue? |
Yes, but Americans expect their issues to become global issues. It's the same reason it's "unacceptable" for Koreans to sell 흑형치킨: Americans have joked about that topic, and those jokes hurt African Americans' feelings, so now the entire world needs to be sensitive about it or be lectured. |
Koreans are incredibly sensitive to instances of their being the victims of racism (quite rightly), so they have no leg to stand on when they refuse to recognise the hurt that is caused by blackface. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| They should re-release Soul Man in Korea. I think it would be a hit. |
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