Today’s Musical Dispatch from the Front continues to tackle stereotyping and its nefarious results with the second part of the dispatch first published 23 June 2018.
Myself, I have often made fun of ‘matters German’. A group of Germans telling jokes: “Drei und vierzig (43)… Ha Ha Ha , neunzehn (19)…Ha Ha Ha…achtundzwanzig (28) …Ha Ha Ha… und zo weiter”
Not to mention the German Coastguard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY
Very funny Frank. On reflection this is based on prejudice and if most Germans were brown or black it would be called racism. Over the years I may have unwittingly hurt many a German’s feelings. Of this I’m not proud. Prejudice without pride.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
In my prejudiced opinion the choice faced by Ukrainians in 1940 is not all that different to that faced by Picts around 60AD in present day Scotland, Jews in Portugal in 1497 or Iraqis in Iraq in 1990.
Many more examples of whole populations being placed between a rock and a hard place abound in history. The present and future are not exempt.
We’re in the same boat,
On the same sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qge8BIgPB7s
Remote Aboriginal Australians are in such a hard place. At what price do you surrender your identity and dignity? What price do you put on self-determination? What price a language? What price a weltanschauung?
At the start of the Intervention (2007), John Howard at Ntaria declared that “Aboriginal Australians, to have any future at all, will have to join the mainstream” This assimilationist paradigm hasn’t shifted several Prime Ministers (if you count Kevin Rudd twice) later. The upcoming election is not likely to change anything in this regard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn1o4MijvHA
Ntaria’s (Hermannsburg) own Warren H. Williams is standing for the Greens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvbgTQIWw_4 in the Senate.
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks is standing for the new First Nations Party. I wish them well and will be voting for them (the beauty of the preferential system), but you’ve heard about the snow-flake.
До наступного разу
(Google translate- Ukrainian)
Frank