Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Funny this should come up I was living in Indonesia (Medan) in 1985. I had an R4 with motor drive, an SL a 50 a 19 and a 180 Elmarit but no 35 or 135 in R mount for some stupid reason. Anyway I also had with me a non-Grundig SW radio and one the few stations that came in clearly in English was the Australian national radio station. I've forgotten what it was called (Radio Australia?) but they played the familiar call tune before the beginning of every news program. They carried some sort of entertainment show where all they did was mas make the most insulting and degrading remarks about Aborigines. I'm not talking about cutesey humour centred around real or perceived ethnic or racial peculiarities but biting intentionally insulting dialogue containing references to things like personal habits or intelligence and comparisons to animals. I'm not going to go into details because I don't remember any at this point but if you can imagine the most degrading ethnic or racial jokes you've ever heard made about Poles, Jews, Blacks, Italians, Asians, Hispanics ...etcetera and reapply them to aboriginies then you have the theme of this show. And most shocking of all, it was aired on the national shortwave station - their voice to the world! I don't think they even realized how offensive they were. It made me cringe and I have an extremely tolerant sense of humour. Javier - --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > Karina actually wrote... > > "That was what I thought and said about South africa > until I moved to > Australia - I learnt more about the "true" state of > South Africa whilst > living in Australia and I am retrospectively > appalled by how it was for > those less fortunate....." > > ---- > Did you never read or see anything that wasn't pure > racist propagand the > entire time you lived in South Africa? Weren't you > ever the least bit > curious about who lived in the "townships" and how > they lived? Didn't you > wonder what the "homelands" were all about? Didn't > you have any curiosity > about who worked in the mines and what the > conditions were like? And did you > never read anything written by Nadine Gorier, your > Noble Prize winner for > literature? 'Those less fortunate'...by which you > mean the majority of all > men, women, and children in South Africa? > > And you would, with a straight 'face,' compare the > poverty and inequities in > today's America with the situation in South Africa? > > That's really pretty appalling. > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On > Behalf Of > kiklaas@iinet.net.au > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:42 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: calling on the LUG to do a > good deed: leica > scholarship > > > ...I'm just > > saying that, in general, things are economically > pretty good here. > > > > B.D. > > > BD, > > That was what I thought and said about South africa > until I moved to > Australia - I learnt more about the "true" state of > South Africa whilst > living in Australia and I am retrospectively > appalled by how it was for > those less fortunate..... > > How many years does it take to reach 4 week paid > annual leave in the US? > > How many hours do you have to work a day to live > "well?' > > Quantifying standard of living should include > quality of life....not the > clothes you wear and the cars you are able to > drive...but also, how well > the less fortunate than you are taken care of and > how much time you get to > spend with your family etc... > > What do they say - "one can win the rat race....but > you will always be a > rat." > > By the way, I enjoy this exchange because I learn > more about the US so I > am absorbing everything you write. > > It does not take a stupid person to form a > perception based > on the only source they have avalaible to them, > until actually visiting > the country. I was just surprised at how far off > the mark that perception > was > > Someone in LA said there is here is a saying that > applies to LA: > > "A bus comes in at 12 o'clock everynight and picks > up all the ugly people" > > This almost knocked me off my stool. > > Karina > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html