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Subject: Cultural insensitivity
capitalist72    2/7/2004 9:58:52 PM
I, too, was offended as a child by the tale of the 3 little pigs. It always amazes me how kids in the west are all subject to this not-so-subtle bias. http://www.thewilmslowexpress.co.uk/barlowsbrief/index/articles/article_id=2836.html No sanctuary for the Three Little Pigs Email this page to a friend Did you have a golliwog when you were a child? We had one at our school; I loved it. Unfortunately so did all the other kids - consequently I hardly ever got near it. We used to sing 'Bah-bah black sheep have you any wool?' it was a playground favourite. Occasionally, if she was in a good mood, our teacher would allow us to draw pictures on the blackboard. All in all we had a pretty good time. Little did we realise that we were all a bunch of racists espousing the doctrine of Aryan superiority? One of my best pals was an Indian lad; considering the amount of time he spent around our house you would have thought he could have told me. Maybe we were just too busy playing conkers, swapping marbles and making catapults for him to mention it? I doubt when the West Indian kids in our class were huffing and puffing along with the rest of us at the Three Little Pigs they ever suspected they were taking part in an attempt to undermine the entire Muslim faith. For a class of 30 the task ultimately proved too great but had we succeeded we could have changed the face of the world. Of course the divisive 'blackboard' has long since been replaced by the innocuous 'chalkboard' and children must now question 'white sheep' equally on the availability of wool. Currently there is a move afoot to ban the Three Little Pigs from schools and the much beloved 'golliwog' is to be expunged from our history. A good thing too if you ask me. Most of my pals were totally oblivious of colour, creed or religion. All they cared about was how good you were at football and who could build the best den. When they should have been debating the role of ethnic minorities in a multicultural society they were actually encouraging anyone with a water-pistol to join our gang. Instead of filtering our language, monitoring our play and censoring our reading material we were all cheering shamelessly for the Three Little Pigs with little thought for the damage we were inflicting upon the world of Islam. With all the political correctness surrounding them today these children no longer risk being effortlessly assimilated into a gang of scallywags such as ours. Thanks to headteachers, politicians and sociologists innocent little kids from ethnic backgrounds now stick out like a sore thumb. Golly would turn in his grave.
 
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Final Historian    RE:Cultural insensitivity   2/7/2004 10:45:51 PM
Umm, what was the problem with the 3 little pigs? Somethng about people who use different materials for housebuilding? Or is the wolf supposed to be "ethnic"?
 
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Condor Legion    RE:Cultural insensitivity   2/7/2004 11:39:55 PM
Maybe it's that cloven hoof thing again... Fine, whatever, more BarBQue ribs for me... I GOT RIGHTS AND I GOT LEFTS, CL.
 
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capitalist72    RE:Cultural insensitivity   2/8/2004 12:01:22 AM
stories about pigs to the kids caused muslim parents to complain
 
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appleciderus    Golliwog?   2/8/2004 8:30:53 AM
I just had to research that. I would have had to have been taught what a Golliwog was so that I could understand how racist I was.
 
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Panther    RE:Cultural insensitivity   2/8/2004 8:46:45 AM
"Fine, whatever, more BarBQue ribs for me..." *Gasp*... WHAT!!!! AND NO POTATO SALAD???? OH, THE INHUMANITY!!! ;)
 
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American Kafir    RE:Cultural insensitivity   2/8/2004 9:31:16 AM
Ribs, tater salad, and no football? Man y'all ARE culturally insensitive. ;-)
 
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capitalist72    RE:Golliwog?   2/8/2004 10:21:06 AM
I don't really know about the origins of a "golliwog" but i do know that kids of any colour don't really look at it in a racial way.
 
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swhitebull    RE:Cultural insensitivity   2/8/2004 2:34:24 PM
..Instead of filtering our language, monitoring our play and censoring our reading material we were all cheering shamelessly for the Three Little Pigs with little thought for the damage we were inflicting upon the world of Islam. With all the political correctness surrounding them today these children no longer risk being effortlessly assimilated into a gang of scallywags such as ours. Thanks to headteachers, politicians and sociologists innocent little kids from ethnic backgrounds now stick out like a sore thumb. ... What does that say about the security of a religion or idea that it fears contamination from a childhood playlot ditty? Or cant tolerate other culture's ideas and myths and legends. Pretty sad when the religious thought police move in - i'm surprised the kids' tongues werent cut out for such insensitivity. swhitebull
 
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appleciderus    Slow down!   2/8/2004 3:39:00 PM
Golliwog? Sacallywag? Morse code? Binary? Help!
 
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Vulture    RE:Cultural insensitivity- Fear the memes.. usually   2/8/2004 5:45:35 PM
Sorry SW I gotta disagree with you on this one. Ok most here know that Islam is a messed up religion that is quite backwards when taken literally as all too many arabs are indoctrinated in it. Memes embedded in childrens games form a very powerful indoctrination for a culture. For example in Japan a common meme is "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down." One way it is expressed is the children's game Jan Ken Pon (rock paper scissors). As a group the kids who choose a different symbol are excluded. Having said all that cultural memes that show pigs as clean and human friendly do create a low level dissonance with the rote teachings of Islam that it is unclean. This is not that different from childrens stories with nice witches being opposed by christian fundamentalists. So yes "pig friendly" stories are damaging to Islam , but that is because Islam is not a rational consistent ideology. And that anything that shows Islam to be lacking is attacked by those indoctrinated in it. Go Memes!
 
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