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Originally Posted by ahi
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But you consider yourself exempt... Thanks for clarifing your position.
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Originally Posted by ahi
I'll just point out the first sentence of the wikipedia article:
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Blackface, in the narrow sense, is a style of theatrical makeup that originated in the United States, used to take on the appearance of certain archetypes of American racism, especially those of the "happy-go-lucky darky on the plantation" or the "dandified coon ".
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And I will point out again that the artist who was born in 1927 and first drew the character in 1962. And that as a
Frenchman would he have neccessarily have been influenced by an
American cultural caricature as anything more than as a model to base his character on. No more than the Golliwogg of Florence Kate Upton's storys were . Or Svart Pete of dutch folklore.
edit: I'm wrong to refer to Golliwogg in this context, as Florence was American though the Golliwogg stories were written in Britain, she clearly would have been aware of the american interpretation, But I can stand by the rest of the paragraph
But then North Americans often assume their culture must be dominant over the entire planet. Look at the "controversy" over the pokemon "jynx" which was assumed to represent "Blackface" but was actually parodying the darkly tanned with blond hair and heavy make-up of the Ganguro fashion trend popular at the time in Japan.