GOP and the City Comments
This is what happens when people blindly apply their own local biases to foreign cultures. Say the word negro is, in principle, nothing but a neutral description like blond, or tall or plump. However given the history of the word *in*the*USA* it is offensive there and best avoided *there*.
About Memin, all cartoons are exaggerated (look at any editorial cartoon of George Bush with ears the size of his head). While a certain jovial disrespect *is* inteded, as with all cartoons, no racism is intended unless there is some new form of anti-big-presidential-ears racist movement I'm unaware of. Similarly the fact that Memin's black characteristics are exaggerated say nothing about what are the values Mexicans ascribe to them.
What is happening here is Americans are judging the comic strip within their own cultural context in which simply being called black or negro is an insult. This speaks of the racism in your society, not Mexico's.
I have to say, I agree with anonymous.
However, anonymous, if you're going to write a screed like that, then sack up and sign your name. It loses any potency when you're too chicken to take credit for your opinions.
Anon does pose a side I did not think of.
I don't know, maybe you could purchase the comic so you could see it's not racist at all?
Esto es tan estúpidamente surrealista que ni siquiera resulta divertido: un puñado de gringos y sus acólitos, que sólo hablan mal inglés y que no saben absolutamente nada de México, menos comprenden, intentando imponer por la fuerza a sus vecinos del sur soluciones foráneas que no han conseguido que les funcionen en casa.
Generaciones enteras de mexicanos aprendieron a leer con Memín Penguín a la par que eran cautivadas por su simpatía, su dulzura, su inquieta inteligencia y su conmovedora sinceridad y capacidad de amar. Memín les ayudó a adquirir valores humanos, a respetar la diversidad y a detestar la injusticia. Y ahora nos quieren reinventar la rueda encontrando odio donde siempre hubo aprecio y racismo donde siempre hubo cariño y respeto, en un clarísimo caso de «piensa el ladrón que son todos de su condición».
No son ni capaces de escribir correctamente el nombre de Memín. Tamaña muestra de cerrazón causaría hilaridad si no provocara antes profundo llanto.
Again, this has nothing to do with racism. It may be racism here in the states, but in Mexico it has to do with historical culture. The black people living in Mexico have never been offended by this depiction of Memin.(Yes there are black people living in Mexico as well as blond and white as snow) They have never experienced the racism that black people did here.
Discrimination is directed against the poor and indigenous people, that I will grant to anyone crying foul about this stamp issue.
By the way, if you do not know how to go about protesting your disatisfaction with the whole thing, you are in trouble.
How about not taking your dollars to spend down there?
Just a sugestion.
Since when do GOP's care about racism?
Since when do Democrats ever care about ANYTHING unless it furthers their own party's ends.
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