Comments | anthropologist: 'I like Hollywood not Bollywood

malkin767 in anthropologist

'I like Hollywood not Bollywood

Jul 30, 2007 15:07

Liza Booth BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat ( Read more... )

culture, identity, uk, asia

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clmethod July 30 2007, 20:59:45 UTC

Coconut?

I thought it was banana....

I've also heard

apple (native american) and
oreo (black)

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blonde_in_black July 30 2007, 22:21:12 UTC

Indeed. We refer to 'Asian' as in, from India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka/Bangladesh. For the Far East we use the term 'Oriental'.

wagrobanite July 30 2007, 22:03:37 UTC

I've heard apple a lot partly because I live 45 minutes away from a Reservation and my education has done a lot of stuff look at Native American issues

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sugarimp July 31 2007, 06:40:09 UTC

Shoot, I must be a coconut. I grew up mostly outside of India and I hate Bollywood, can't can't construct a decent sentence in Hindi, don't know how to wear a sari, and I like my steak just about barely dead. I should be bothered but I'm not.

metahara July 31 2007, 14:43:36 UTC

does all that fruit and sweets analogizing confirm and strengthen the otherness supported by the idea that all things mainstream western are "white"?

I seem to recall Oprah going off about this. He rant suggested that just because one can train their voice to switch in and out of an accent (she's from Mississippi after all) does not mean they can now "talk white".
She challenged viewers to consider it speaking the Midwestern American Dialect of English rather than "speaking white".