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Originally Posted by khalleron
Does that explain why you can make fun of fellow Europeans (rule 3) but not Africans or Asians (Rule 4)?
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So, by not making fun of them I'm actually implying they are less powerful than I? Isn't that offensive?
Seriously, I more or less know how it works, and there is a thin line between what is funny and what is offensive, a line that varies with people and contexts. I just wanted to point out that sometimes people (myself included) are too prone to be offended.
I also think that the current search for "political correctness" is counterproductive. Everyone (especially the media) tries to be nice to all the groups that could be regarded as "sensitive": racial minorities, women, the handicapped... My view is that it's good to be nice, but it's dangerous to be artificilly "too nice", by trying to imply that you don't care about the differences you actually make the differences the more obvious. To come back to the initial topic, I read the Tintin comic as a fiction history unrelated to the real world, where everyone is displayed through stereotypes, and those funny dark characters make funny things. If I then wonder and worry about how black people may feel with that, I'm somehow relating those "funny characters" with real black people, something which actually I don't, just like I don't relate Dupond and Dupont with real policemen, or Mr. Bean with your typical Englishman.
I don't know if I make myself clear...
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You may make fun of Americans under Rule 2.
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I was thinking of
South-Americans (most of which are more powerful than I am, anyway)