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Allthechildrenareinsane
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tideout
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 Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:21 pm Post subject: Re: Wonder How This'll Turn Out. . . |
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| Allthechildrenareinsane wrote: |
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120225_South_Korean_journalists_focus_their_cameras_on_Camden.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/camden_flow/140070063.html?ref=more-like-this
Given my previous post (http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=217521) and the fact that I live right across the river and attended Rutgers-Camden for a time, I'm very interested to see how the city, which is 48% African American and 47% Hispanic, gets portrayed by KBS. |
I don't watch Korean TV but I think both of your posts are very interesting. I'd appreciate any follow-up on these myself.
The other "black face" performance was pretty disgusting.
Of course Camden has become something of a low watermark for some writers, columnists - an example of how poorly some in the US are doing.
It will be interesting to see if they compare Camden with say, Wolgye on the line 1, North out of Seoul or other poor areas?  |
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Mix1
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| All depends on how they spin it, right? |
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tideout
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| Mix1 wrote: |
| All depends on how they spin it, right? |
Pretty much. There's certainly a legit news story there though it might be considered old in the US news cycle.
I consider the S. Korean economy have some interesting parallels - very high personal debt, slowing economy, inflation, their own version of a real estate bubble etc..
Let's say I'd be "disappointed" in any gloating. |
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Allthechildrenareinsane
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| Mix1 wrote: |
| All depends on how they spin it, right? |
That's what I'm curious about -- how nuanced a portrayal of Camden and its residents KBS will aim for. My suspicion is that the narrative they construct around the city and its decline won't be nuanced in the slightest or attend to the complexities of race and class in America.
I know that nuance and context aren't exactly strong points of TV as a medium, so the only reason I can think that KBS would send a camera crew to "the most dangerous city in America" is that it's a city where the issues of race, class, poverty, crime and drug addiction create a perfect spectacle of foreign "otherness" which KBS's audience can then feel free to gawk at and look down upon as yet another stock example of the depravity and decadence of foreigners. In other words, I think the KBS documentary will simply appropriate and reduce the complexities of Camden's ills in order to situate it within a larger, more simplistic narrative of Korean nationalism. |
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tideout
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| Allthechildrenareinsane wrote: |
| Mix1 wrote: |
| All depends on how they spin it, right? |
That's what I'm curious about -- how nuanced a portrayal of Camden and its residents KBS will aim for. My suspicion is that the narrative they construct around the city and its decline won't be nuanced in the slightest or attend to the complexities of race and class in America.
I know that nuance and context aren't exactly strong points of TV as a medium, so the only reason I can think that KBS would send a camera crew to "the most dangerous city in America" is that it's a city where the issues of race, class, poverty, crime and drug addiction create a perfect spectacle of foreign "otherness" which KBS's audience can then feel free to gawk at and look down upon as yet another stock example of the depravity and decadence of foreigners. In other words, I think the KBS documentary will simply appropriate and reduce the complexities of Camden's ills in order to situate it within a larger, more simplistic narrative of Korean nationalism. |
I'm shocked, shocked I say!
It will be interesting to see in any case. |
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