- 12 May 2007 20:18
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"Their economy produces things cheaper than ours, so we need to send them some manufactured viruses to level the playing field." - Freedom and Democracy Inc.
...the way that your ethnic group is represented on television and film?
As a European blue-eyed male, I don't like the way my group is constantly depicted in films as being the primary characters. This leads to a false sense of euro homogeneity which I don't experience in my daily life, where most of my friends are Moslems from other continents.
I simply can't relate the "euro" on TV and in film to myself.
What I don't like about this misrepresentation is the way it makes people who see me for the first time think that I am "like" the euros they see on TV - the ones who are always rich, suburban, shallow, silly, and incredibly materialistic and self-confident in a childish way.
What about you? How do you like your TV reflection?
As a European blue-eyed male, I don't like the way my group is constantly depicted in films as being the primary characters. This leads to a false sense of euro homogeneity which I don't experience in my daily life, where most of my friends are Moslems from other continents.
I simply can't relate the "euro" on TV and in film to myself.
What I don't like about this misrepresentation is the way it makes people who see me for the first time think that I am "like" the euros they see on TV - the ones who are always rich, suburban, shallow, silly, and incredibly materialistic and self-confident in a childish way.
What about you? How do you like your TV reflection?
"Their economy produces things cheaper than ours, so we need to send them some manufactured viruses to level the playing field." - Freedom and Democracy Inc.