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Originally Posted by Kal
YES, Aussies and Americans have a different culture as is apparent from this skit.
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Isn't there, separate from racial discrimination,
cultural discrimination ??
The HHIS skit can be argued as being mostly
ethnic discrimination, and not either
cultural discrimination nor
racially discriminatory.
I.e.
Cultural discrimination is like, say, indigenous aboriginals are not allowed to hunt for turtles even though it has been traditionally their significant food source and custom.
Racial discrimination a belief of superiority of their race over another race of people, whose actions deliberately exclude one individual or group over another. Yet
ethnic discrimination, however, in about observed differences in ethnicity in human populations based how people speak, their adopt tongue, behaviour traits, foods, etc.
The skit on HHIS was certainly aimed to be a
parody (defined as "
...an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect"), which is a particular type of humour. Good examples are like the Greek "Con the Fruiter" I.e.
Close Encountersor like the old
"Acropolis Now" (Effie), or even "The Wog Boys" with Nick Giannopoulos and Vince Colosimo, etc. In Australia, of the 1970s and 1980s often parodied these ethnic groups, I.e.
Ted Bullpit "Kingswood Country", and were instead in turn (response), also parodied by themselves. Twenty years ago such comedy was viewed as fairly innocent, but since then Society has taken a different path.
Even recently, another parody program was the Islamic based "Salam Cafe" (2008) on SBS, and is still on TVS / Channel 31. (A sample appears at
Salam Cafe: Uncle Sam. [YouTube page has amazingly disabled all comments. I wonder why?] or
Salam Cafe - Working With A Muslim A program like this could never be shown in America.
But in America, the changing ethnicity was much earlier, whose ethnic groups were well established. I.e. Italians and Irish, then later the Hispanics, etc. With the large population of African Americans, the differences between all the ethnic groups. Martin Luther King Jr. polarised the inequality, which profoundly changed the American culture. The significant American parody was the TV series "
All in the Family" and had Archie Bunker (actor Carroll O'Connor) An example is
All in the Family - Archie Bunker Meets Sammy Davis - it would never be shown on either Australian American TV now. (Makes HHIS controversy look quite lame.) Amazingly, the show seasons ran between 1971 and 1983!
Yet, unlike Australia, America had no real reverse parodies from the other ethnic groups, and it is for this reason I reckon why racial discrimination buried any necessary balance to honestly laughing at our differences between groups of people, then moving on. IMO the do-gooders have disappointedly in trying to right the world, but have instead made the divisions between all ethnic groups even wider.
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The original parody of HHIS of was mostly from the Jackson's songs "ABC" and "I Want You Back"
"ABC"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-16fDpOW948
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYx3BR2aJA4
"I Want You Back"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfJu_Bom2sA
As you can easily see, the parody by the Jackson impersonators if quite close to the mark. Although acted and sung poorly, I can see the point of their parody, and I'm sure it was done innocently.
