Humor And Racism Analysis

shows that humor is an effective way to communicate racism because it does not require shouters or whispers. In other words, humor is an effective way to convey racism because it emphasizes uncomfortable realties that people may not feel comfortable talking about.
I believe it is important to have a good sense of humor as a human being because you can differentiate between offensive humor and humor that raises a serious issue but also gives you a good laugh. Alleen & Nilsen (2006) also argue that perceptions of humour are dependent on whether an ethnic joke comes from the inside or outside. In other words, Alleen & Nilsen (2006) argue that when humour comes from the insider it is deemed as acceptable or expected behaviours, however when the jokes are coming from the outside it is taken to be critical or insulting (p.135). Alleen & Nilsen (2006) are suggesting that sometimes humour is not always understood by everyone, but sometimes it is just the specific ethnic group who understands it. This may create issues in the classroom as a teacher, because some students may take certain humor as offensive. However, it is important as an educator to teach
Throughout the book, Sherman Alexie provides many humorous scenes and images to help point out awareness of issues and realties that Indigenous communities face. Alexie (2007) writes “none of those guys punched me or got violent. After all, I was a reservation Indian, and no matter how geeky and weak I appeared to be, I was still a potential killer” (p.63). In this scene, Arnold uses humour to talk about the stereotypes about Indigenous communities. This quote represents the Nobel savage and bloodthirsty savage stereotype about Indigenous groups. The bloodthirsty savage “was the familiar character who rode around wagon trains, burned settlers’ cabins to