@RusA #9857335 Like that when Justin Trudeu must apologize for his black face picture, or Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon had to appologize when they play black face character in SNL, moral of that story : before u get famous, make sure that u don't have any racist comment or racist picture from the past documented coz the internet will always find it, and since u a white man, they will make it bigger
That's true. Blackface comedy used to be considered funny rather than insulting, sometimes considered a friendly tribute to black culture. It was quite popular among college frat boys, which is getting a lot of them in trouble if they become famous later on.
Also, in the old days, theatrical actors were taught to do "ethnic" makeup and accents as part of their craft, which included stereotyped "Negro", "Oriental", and "Native" characters. This sort of thing is considered unacceptable today, especially when done in a ridiculous way like Mickey Rooney's Japanese character in Breakfast At Tiffany's. I just saw an old horror movie called From Hell It Came, the one about a killer tree stump , and though it takes place on an unnamed South Sea island, most of the "natives" were obviously American actors in dark makeup and wigs.
My father tells about the time when he was in college in the mid-Seventies: one of their talent shows was framed as an episode of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, with students playing Carson and his sidekick Ed McMahon and various then-well-known celebrities. Then the students who were presenting their talents were introduced as "guests" on the show (including my dad's jazz ensemble). One of the "celebrities" on the show was a football player who dressed up as someone who was quite well-known at the time: the black comedian Flip Wilson in his drag character "Geraldine Jones". To be clear about it: this white student did a routine as Geraldine in blackface and in drag! This was in the mid-Seventies, when blackface was still considered funny, but drag was quite risqué. We don't know what ever became of that student. He could get away with it because he was an straight athlete and a leftist activist - blackface and drag was sort of his way of demonstrating that everyone is equal, male, female, black, white, and everyone. Not many people would see it that way today, and we sometimes joke about if he turned conservative like a lot of Seventies liberals did in the Eighties, and suddenly the college yearbook turned up at his investment firm or whatever, with the photo of him as Geraldine.
My friend once told me, after she went to Singapore that she found out that the news in Singapore aren't really news, she meant that theres no criminal news there, then i said "yeah.. They crime is almost zero, they also the first country in south east Asia." and then she said "but it so boring"
My impression of Singapore is that there's so little crime because they'll slap you in jail and beat you with a rattan cane for tossing a wrapper on the sidewalk. So everyone behaves themselves.
We don't have a lot of pay toilets in the U.S., but in many places the public toilets are locked and you have to get the key from whomever is in charge. Cleanliness varies enormously, from squeaky clean to shockingly filthy, and a lot of public facilities make a big deal out of how spic-and-span their bathrooms are. There's a joke about a Swede driving across America who saw a sign that said: CLEAN BATHROOMS, so he cleaned fifty of them.
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Like that when Justin Trudeu must apologize for his black face picture, or Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon had to appologize when they play black face character in SNL, moral of that story : before u get famous, make sure that u don't have any racist comment or racist picture from the past documented coz the internet will always find it, and since u a white man, they will make it bigger
That's true. Blackface comedy used to be considered funny rather than insulting, sometimes considered a friendly tribute to black culture. It was quite popular among college frat boys, which is getting a lot of them in trouble if they become famous later on.
Also, in the old days, theatrical actors were taught to do "ethnic" makeup and accents as part of their craft, which included stereotyped "Negro", "Oriental", and "Native" characters. This sort of thing is considered unacceptable today, especially when done in a ridiculous way like Mickey Rooney's Japanese character in Breakfast At Tiffany's. I just saw an old horror movie called From Hell It Came, the one about a killer tree stump
My father tells about the time when he was in college in the mid-Seventies: one of their talent shows was framed as an episode of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, with students playing Carson and his sidekick Ed McMahon and various then-well-known celebrities. Then the students who were presenting their talents were introduced as "guests" on the show (including my dad's jazz ensemble). One of the "celebrities" on the show was a football player who dressed up as someone who was quite well-known at the time: the black comedian Flip Wilson in his drag character "Geraldine Jones". To be clear about it: this white student did a routine as Geraldine in blackface and in drag! This was in the mid-Seventies, when blackface was still considered funny, but drag was quite risqué. We don't know what ever became of that student. He could get away with it because he was an straight athlete and a leftist activist - blackface and drag was sort of his way of demonstrating that everyone is equal, male, female, black, white, and everyone. Not many people would see it that way today, and we sometimes joke about if he turned conservative like a lot of Seventies liberals did in the Eighties, and suddenly the college yearbook turned up at his investment firm or whatever, with the photo of him as Geraldine.
My friend once told me, after she went to Singapore that she found out that the news in Singapore aren't really news, she meant that theres no criminal news there, then i said "yeah.. They crime is almost zero, they also the first country in south east Asia." and then she said "but it so boring"
My impression of Singapore is that there's so little crime because they'll slap you in jail and beat you with a rattan cane for tossing a wrapper on the sidewalk. So everyone behaves themselves.
We don't have a lot of pay toilets in the U.S., but in many places the public toilets are locked and you have to get the key from whomever is in charge. Cleanliness varies enormously, from squeaky clean to shockingly filthy, and a lot of public facilities make a big deal out of how spic-and-span their bathrooms are. There's a joke about a Swede driving across America who saw a sign that said: CLEAN BATHROOMS, so he cleaned fifty of them.