racist movements like the Nazi’s and the Klu Klux Klan have used “humour” and cartoons to spread their hateful ideas. Don’t let anyone tell you that a racist joke is just a joke and doesn’t hurt anyone. To snigger or joke about someone’s skin colour or hair colour or religion or where they come from can be hurtful. Saying it’s just a joke doesn’t make it ok. People right now could be being bullied about these things. Teasing‚ bullying‚ cyber-bullying‚ leaving someone out because they’re from another
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keep this old fashioned story of love simply about love and amorous affection‚ revolts against anything that has to do with humor. The student commented‚ “Like typical men these boneheads boast about their sexual prowess and turn everything into a sex joke” and on a further note‚ questions why Shakespeare put such crude characters in a play famous for its representation of love. Although I can agree in some circumstances‚ it’s easy to assume that this female student judges men’s view on love in a negative
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to be more serious‚ since the holocaust is nothing to joke about. A better example of a holocaust film would be The Pianist‚ by Roman Polanski. In this film‚ Szpilman‚ a Polish Jewish pianist‚ escapes getting taken to the concentration camps and the plot is about his journey hiding in Warsaw to escape deportation. This film is actually realistic and shows what it may have been like for an individual to live during this time. There is no jokes played on the characters and everything that happened
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Chaucer. He was a very witty person and loves flatulent jokes. She delves into the modern translation of his famous work and explains her opinion of it in this description of the most famous Old English poet‚ Geoffrey Chaucer. One of the most interesting things I discovered in this paper was about Chaucer himself. The fact that he enjoyed a good fart joke makes me laugh. On the third page of the story‚ Acocella references his enjoyment for jokes containing flatulence by quoting from the Summoner’s
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Blacks suffer from their share of jokes‚ based on their physical appearance‚ “capabilities”‚ and “differences”. The portrayal of black women as overweight and frumpy is seen in many popular movies‚ such as the character of Rasputia in the film Norbit. For weeks after the release of the film‚ Rasputia’s character was a popular joke amongst the film’s audience. She was mocked‚ laughed at because she represented the media’s ideal of
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“Racism is a refuge for the ignorant.” This quote by Pierre Berton describes how racists are showing lack of knowledge and being closed minded about the topic. Racism is an opinion that causes others to have great negativity towards each other. How is racism affecting us? The way racism began was when people think they are more than others. The most overheard event in racism history was black slavery. We learned this in school. They let their skin color decided their actions. They‚ as in the Europeans
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To say that Native Americans are adaptable is an understatement. After years of marginalization‚ genocide‚ and silencing‚ they are still here‚ creating‚ living‚ and thriving. All Native comedy is not just about jokes‚ it’s about representation. Native American comedians making jokes is political‚ because their very existence is a political statement. Comedy is a medium that gives Native Americans the opportunity to control representation of themselves in an especially accessible way. In the
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and geographical location. Therefore humour is something which is not always transferrable in another country. What somebody from one area may find hilarious may not be amusing at all to somebody from another location. Whether or not someone gets a joke is determined by their interpretation‚ filtered by the cultural context. What about when both countries speak the same mother tongue? Does that mean that they will then share the same sense of humour‚ or can differences still occur? Let’s take the
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at times the humor in this film is stupid‚ it still is funny‚ and there are numerous jokes in that are only funny because a teddy bear says them‚ which in turn makes them even more humorous. For instance‚ a simple knock knock joke becomes funny when Ted‚ the teddy Pezulev 2 bear‚ says it because of the way in which he talks and his actions as he says it‚ all contribute to a stupid joke becoming a hilarious joke. Also‚ seeing a teddy bear doing illegal and adult things‚ such as smoking weed and
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I snickered and walked over to him. Nicholas looked at the floor and snickered as I sat in the desk next to him. “So Raven‚ wanna hear a joke?” asked Nicholas giggling a bit. I really don’t like Nicholas’ jokes‚ he always tells dark jokes and refuses to tell something that doesn’t end with someone getting hurt. Other than games‚ Nicholas also likes to tell jokes. If football backfires for him‚ there is a chance he could become a comedian‚ Nicholas kept giggling. “A man woke up in a hospital after
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