Austrian Entry 'Joy' Disqualified From International Feature Competition
Entries must feature "a predominantly non-English dialogue track," per Academy rules, but a review found that two-third of Austria's entry is in English... https://t.co/3XMfW6WUJf via @thr
- Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) November 11, 2019
Entries must feature "a predominantly non-English dialogue track," per Academy rules ( Read more... )
My family's Nigerian and it's always funny to see someone in the store kind of squint when my mom's in line and animatedly speaking Pidgin, you can tell they're having a mild crisis bc they think they should be able to understand what she's saying. Especially since I'm responding back in English.
Also lol @ Britain. I really think cultural context should be held into account because it's not as simple as "speak an indigenous language" for so many of these countries. English drives the infrastructure. Hell, my family in Nigeria sent me a Christmas card when I was eight and it had a white family on it. I was so fucking confused growing up as a minority in the US since Nigeria was The Motherland to me, wtf am I getting white Christmas cards I could get that here!
They may as well have kept the name of the award the same so as to avoid this confusion, and/or made a separate category for foreign made films so as not to penalize colonized countries for how they developed with England's influence.
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lol - I pretty much summarised it in my previous comment.
English drives the infrastructure.
exactly! I know Nigerian people in Nigerian that didn't even speak a native language growing up... my brother being one of them....
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Oh man, my aunt didn't teach my cousins Yoruba because she said she didn't want them to "have an accent" when they grew up and eventually came to the US as she hoped they would... Omg lmao I was born and raised here and I know more Yoruba than them. It's sad when you think of it as more than a general "lol" because you're cutting your kid off from some of their culture to try and appease white people or better assimilate into white countries. Seems pointless to me since I genuinely have no accent but the second someone sees my name they start talking about how I should just like this Jamaican nurse their dad had...
I wish I had more than passive fluency but I'm glad for what I know. I feel like I'd be super frustrated living in Nigeria and not knowing my parents' language, idk how your brother did it. But like, I'm disconnected from stuff in a way and my dad isn't v sentimental and my mom will just shrug sometimes when I ask Cultural Questions or genuinely not know about some random orisha I want to write about so it's frustrating bc extended family just treat me like the American.
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