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I'm rather bored with the

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:23:00 +0000

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I'm rather bored with the idea of there being 1 way of looking at anything. I imagine polling Indians there might be a 60-40 breakdown, which way I've no idea, or asked another way, 45-30-15-10, or maybe even 1.2 billion opinions. Even the blackface bit seems a bit misleading - that color as part of a serious character performance is quite different from color to use to make a pleasant buffoon/idiot. Nevertheless, there are a lot of idiots portrayed in popular Indian film. Yeah, these are okay because it's Indians making Indians look stupid, right? their own choice? Slumdog Millionaire - British director, Indian author - received a lot of accolades and a lot of condemnation - mixed reactions even in India - what to do? how much of each makes it okay or worth banning/shunning? and what about the side scandals that display India's problems even more? One of the comments in the 1st article was re: a Southern white male trying to figure out what the uproar over shallow simplistic stereotyping was, signed by "Clevis the slack-jawed introvert" (while Tom Hanks hasn't suffered much career damage for portraying white Southerners as simpleton congenital idiots).

Here is an opposing view of

rmrd0000 — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:22:23 +0000

In reply to To many Indian Americans, Apu is offensive. To me, he’s my dad.

Here is an opposing view of Apu suggesting the character is a modern style of blackface comedy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/29/opinion/simpsons-apu-brownface.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

We move on. There are movies

rmrd0000 — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:47:05 +0000

In reply to To many Indian Americans, Apu is offensive. To me, he’s my dad.

We move on. There are movies we enjoyed in the past that had scenes of rape We now have conversations about these films. There was an old shoe “Amos n Andy” that had black stereotypes. That show is now criticized for showing whites a damaging image of blacks. Bill Dana portrayed a character, Jose Jimenez, popular in the 1960s. Dana later rejected the character as an embarrassment to the Latino community. It may be that tribes don’t mind laughing at themselves but object to being laughed at by others.