Of xenophobia, plagiarism and permutation | 8 comments (8 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Of xenophobia, plagiarism and permutation (4.00 / 9)

(with apologies for not having posted anything here over the last few months, eh? Partly too busy working, partly lack of EuroTrib-suitable inspiration)

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami

by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Sun Mar 25th, 2007 at 09:26:46 PM EST

Re: Of xenophobia, plagiarism and permutation (4.00 / 4)

interesting to see how if the barbs are evenly distributed, it's amusing for its droll snideness, then when you omit one nation, propaganda emerges.

speaking of omitment (opposite of 'commitment', dropped an 'm' in the 'process'), you were much missed in your absence, so glad to hear from you again.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Mar 26th, 2007 at 01:10:13 AM EST
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Re: Of xenophobia, plagiarism and permutation (4.00 / 2)

interesting to see how if the barbs are evenly distributed, it's amusing for its droll snideness, then when you omit one nation, propaganda emerges.

Not quite how I see it? What I found was that the original Brit-bit, being Brit-authored, was an affectionately droll homage to national stiff-upper-lip understatement in the face of carnage.

However - in phase 2 - some anon. "re-editor" appended to this a spate of viciously hostile Freedom-Fry-type projections of WW2 events into a series of "national stereotypes" for continental Europeans, none of which have anything whatsoever to do with the normally-perceived national characteristics/quirks of the peoples in question. Content can be summed up as "the French are cowardly treacherous turncoats", "the Italians are noisily theatrical treacherous turncoats", "the Germans are hyper-militaristic tinker toys who can't fight" ... cute, eh? To which some bright spark then appended a schoolboy reminiscence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada as representative of Spain's past-present-future essence ...None of which is on the same level - or in the same spirit - as the rather amusing "keep a stiff upper lip and have a nice cup of tea" national-stereotype treatment reserved for the Brits.

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami

by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Mon Mar 26th, 2007 at 05:44:32 PM EST
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Re: Of xenophobia, plagiarism and permutation (4.00 / 2)

Good to see you around again, anyway!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Mar 26th, 2007 at 02:15:36 AM EST
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Very glad to have you back!!

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Mon Mar 26th, 2007 at 03:08:06 AM EST
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Re: Of xenophobia, plagiarism and permutation (none / 1)

Thanks :-) but I never left!!

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami

by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Mon Mar 26th, 2007 at 11:33:23 AM EST
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Of xenophobia, plagiarism and permutation | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)