That blog post was mostly good, but the exception is a rather large one.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 01/02/2012 08:35:57 PM
In a post ranting against westerners having stupid stereotypes about Asians, making generalizations or thinking Asians are stupid when they don't speak English, it seems rather unforgiveable to ignore, you know, the existence of Westerners whose first language isn't English, and who may even be living in countries that are more multilingual than Thailand. Somehow it doesn't sound like she'd have much sympathy for a rant from a French person about that same Anglophonic cultural imperialism.
The degree of Anglophonic cultural imperialism is linked more to the size of the country (and its languages) than it is to the location of a country or its wealth. The ones who are most heavily inundated by it are the ones who don't really mind, so you don't hear them so often, but you do hear the French because they do mind.
So if she's frustrated about people not feeling the pain of her suffering Anglophonic cultural imperialism, the reason is simple: most Westerners are suffering the exact same thing, and often to even larger degrees.
Incidentally, her pictures reminded me of a pair of huge pictures that have been hanging on an apparel store in my town for several years now. The woman of the pair is, whether she believes it or not, Ziyi Zhang. It's not just in Thailand that women from halfway around the globe are found in ads.
The degree of Anglophonic cultural imperialism is linked more to the size of the country (and its languages) than it is to the location of a country or its wealth. The ones who are most heavily inundated by it are the ones who don't really mind, so you don't hear them so often, but you do hear the French because they do mind.
So if she's frustrated about people not feeling the pain of her suffering Anglophonic cultural imperialism, the reason is simple: most Westerners are suffering the exact same thing, and often to even larger degrees.
Incidentally, her pictures reminded me of a pair of huge pictures that have been hanging on an apparel store in my town for several years now. The woman of the pair is, whether she believes it or not, Ziyi Zhang. It's not just in Thailand that women from halfway around the globe are found in ads.
The racist elements in Tolkien's writing
29/01/2012 01:31:02 PM
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She has some points, of course.
29/01/2012 02:25:32 PM
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Quite a few points
29/01/2012 02:40:45 PM
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I don't find the tone blunt; I find it leading, patronizing and often wrong or inferring too much.
30/01/2012 01:43:27 AM
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Agreed - reading it, I struggled to find any redeeming qualities
30/01/2012 07:32:58 PM
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Agreed, in general. The tremendous bad faith and sophistry turn me off, though.
29/01/2012 09:31:04 PM
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Mostly agreed with the article, but thought she undermined herself with her own racism.
29/01/2012 02:50:11 PM
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Just read your Twitter convo... nice try, but looks like wasted effort. *NM*
29/01/2012 10:37:08 PM
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Well, I'll be honest.
29/01/2012 10:34:46 PM
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Let me try to summarize some of her points with the invective filtered out, then.
29/01/2012 10:48:24 PM
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Thank you.
29/01/2012 11:10:13 PM
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What the hell, might as well go and play devil's advocate, right?
30/01/2012 04:50:30 PM
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I expected that.
30/01/2012 05:39:59 PM
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Of course you did. I'm predictable that way.
30/01/2012 10:28:10 PM
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Re: Of course you did. I'm predictable that way.
31/01/2012 12:39:46 AM
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Re: Of course you did. I'm predictable that way.
31/01/2012 08:38:46 PM
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I <3 you, but there are several very key things we are not going to agree on.
31/01/2012 10:02:22 PM
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Hmm?
31/01/2012 10:10:22 PM
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Yeah. I got to reading Encyclopedia of Arda just now, and it told me the same thing.
31/01/2012 10:35:54 PM
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As a sort of group answer (I've been mostly absent from forums the past two days)
31/01/2012 10:45:55 PM
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I don't mind if you tell me I'm out of line here, but
31/01/2012 11:55:04 PM
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I'm rarely ever offended
01/02/2012 01:54:58 AM
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She was referring specifically to the Twitter "conversation" I had with the blogger.
01/02/2012 09:05:28 AM
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Yes.
01/02/2012 10:47:22 AM
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It makes me wonder what she thinks is happening in Zimbabwe, for example.
01/02/2012 11:13:11 AM
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I've been thinking about that.
01/02/2012 11:29:18 AM
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That blog post was mostly good, but the exception is a rather large one.
01/02/2012 08:35:57 PM
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What's a neckbeard? And why am I supposed to care? *NM*
30/01/2012 01:29:07 AM
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neckbeards are when the person (either intentionally or through misfortunate genetics)...
30/01/2012 03:21:09 AM
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acrackedmoon is a racist, sexist bore. And I don't even like Tolkien. *NM*
30/01/2012 01:14:17 PM
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