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What have I done...

Date: 20/4/05 11:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sherbetsaucers.livejournal.com
I believe a can of worms was mentioned?

Plus we all want to prove how liberal and un-biggoted we are.

Date: 20/4/05 11:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
I know why I usually keep my mouth shut when it comes to political or religious discussions but some things just get my hackles up...

Date: 20/4/05 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sherbetsaucers.livejournal.com
At times I find myslef very awear of the fact that I have a few Germans who read my LJ, mainly when talking about movies. I grew up watching war movies and am at times worried that I may offend if I were to make cirtin comments.

There is a comidean called Al Murry (Pub Landlord) who plays a kind of very 'English' pub owner who, basically, hates the Germans and French. However, it is a characture and therfor what ever he says we are, generally, laughing at him, not with him. It is so rediculus as to become almost like the theater of the absurd. However, it is also very funny. (His rendition of Twinkle Twinkle little star in a german accent is funny.) Not only that but half of the lines in Black Adder goes Forth were about 'The Bosh'. Does laughing at these make me raciest, or post-modern? It's a bit of a worry.

Basically I feel that people ARE prejudiced by nature, however there is a difference between having these feelings and acting on them. Indeed, I feel to claim that one has no prejudicices is a worry as, to me, that person is ignoring them, rather than excepting that the exist and activly denying them.

In this country we DO have a kind of cultural prejudice against the German people, it is a mixture of a lot of different things. (You only have to look at the kind of remarks that crop up when ever the two countries play football) it isn't a good thing however and I feel, as Action Man no longer comes with German Uniforms and the generation who fought and lived through the war grow older these are begining to fade. However there will always be assumptions made, general impressions of and prejudice towards people different to you, no matter what their age/race/creed/nationality/religion/hair colour/whatever. It's just the way we are.

I've grown up telling Englishman, Irish man and Scots man jokes. My Dad is Irish, my mother half Irish. Those jokes ARE by definition Raceist, it's just another example I guess. All Germans a Nazis, all Irish are stupid and drunk.

I dunno where that came from or where it was going. Basically, sorry that tabloids in this country are being so rude. I love ya buddy.

Date: 20/4/05 11:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Bloody left-wing do-gooders.
I'm a right-wing do-badder and proud of it.

Date: 20/4/05 11:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
Get out of my LJ now! ;oP

Date: 20/4/05 11:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sherbetsaucers.livejournal.com
Plus you like to kick puppys.

Date: 20/4/05 11:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-lady-lily.livejournal.com
Made a good point and started an important debate that's running over into lunchtime.

Never a good plan at the best of times ;)

Date: 20/4/05 11:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lsur.livejournal.com
lol! would you like a list?

For starters, otherwise innocent folk are going to be spending their weekends poring over textbooks on the Reformation, the Papacy, the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Mussolini, assorted Popish biographies, Luther, the Thirty Years War...etc...etc :¬)

And I was simply hoping for some innocent fun at a gig. Death in June at Slimes on Saturday? Oh no! It's starting again :¬)

Date: 20/4/05 11:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
Argh, don't get the Neofolk-Nazi-Debate started again!

Date: 20/4/05 01:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lsur.livejournal.com
The Holy Roman Empire. I forgot that one. Guess my weekend reading list is fully set.

Date: 20/4/05 11:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blue-cat.livejournal.com
*pets the crazed pre-historic (nearly typed pre-hysteric) squirrel*

it is an important debate given peoples rather parochial views.

Meanwhile... erm, the lambs on the reservoir are getting big now!

Date: 20/4/05 12:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
*purrrs*

Nice. There were loads of ickle lambs on a meadow somewhere between London and Cambridge when I took the train back on Saturday. :o)

Date: 20/4/05 12:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blue-cat.livejournal.com
The ones I see every day going to work are the 'mowers' on the Wraysbury reservoir. They only (bah nearly said 'hatched') first started appearing 30-Mar (I noted it in my LJ on 01-Apr :D ) and they were sweet and ikle and *Squeeeeeee* cutesome.

(MINT SAUCE, my hind brain mutters!)

now they are so very big - still lambs but not quite so teeny and wobbly and more bounding and eating, only3 weeks later.

Don't worry about it...

Date: 20/4/05 11:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whotheheckami.livejournal.com
..I'd leave them to get on with it; they seem to be getting on OK without you.

The smart money's on [personal profile] davywavy ;@)

Re: Don't worry about it...

Date: 20/4/05 01:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puddingcat.livejournal.com
Nooo! We're dooomed!

Re: Don't worry about it...

Date: 20/4/05 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
The smart money usually is on me :)

Re: Don't worry about it...

Date: 20/4/05 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whotheheckami.livejournal.com
I thought the smart money was supposed to be given to you ;@)

Date: 20/4/05 05:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kyrthira.livejournal.com
Eh. I posted my own thoughts on the matter. I'll know I struck a chord if I start getting random people linking it :)

Date: 21/4/05 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lslaw.livejournal.com
Missed out the question mark.

Date: 21/4/05 05:01 pm (UTC)

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