Saturday, February 14, 2004
I'm sure you've hearad about htis one. Conan O'Brien show's anti-Quebec barbs anger Ottawa politicians. I find a few things interesting about this.
1. A lot of people are calling the comments racist. You have to have different races to be racist. Canadian's are white. Conan's white. Heck, Conan's Irish. That's like uber-white. So maybe it is racist.
2. This digs up old feelings in Canada. It seems that the people are already sensitive about the whole barrier of languages that exist. Man, I guess they ain't got any minorities to get angry about so they have to make them up. We don't like them because, um, er, well, they speak French. Please people, can't you make up some real stuff up? We Americans know how to have predjudices.
They come over here and take our good jobs.
They don't even speak proper English.
Hey, they keep taking our white women. (and leave us with their women, who won't even let us batter them properly.)
3. The Canadian government, in an attempt to promote tourism, actually paid Conan to visit. This was a good idea? Has Canada never heard of a tourist attraction? Come on folks, talk to Disney, I hear they could use the money. How about Disneyquios?
4. It's Triumph the insult comic dog, idiots. Or should I say "L'idiots?" I know there has to be a french word for insult. Don't the French-Canandians know it? the French-French sure seem to understand insults. What did you expect? Tony Robbins?
5. Is "francophone" a word? things are getting to easily into the dictionary. I can't say "ain't", but you make up a word that sounds like a recording device and just make it mean whatever the heck you want it to mean?
People, people. We can get past this. Just have a beer together, give each other a big hug, and forget about this crap. (Tip: hold your breath during the hug. They may not be the real French, but better safe than sorry.)
1. A lot of people are calling the comments racist. You have to have different races to be racist. Canadian's are white. Conan's white. Heck, Conan's Irish. That's like uber-white. So maybe it is racist.
2. This digs up old feelings in Canada. It seems that the people are already sensitive about the whole barrier of languages that exist. Man, I guess they ain't got any minorities to get angry about so they have to make them up. We don't like them because, um, er, well, they speak French. Please people, can't you make up some real stuff up? We Americans know how to have predjudices.
They come over here and take our good jobs.
They don't even speak proper English.
Hey, they keep taking our white women. (and leave us with their women, who won't even let us batter them properly.)
3. The Canadian government, in an attempt to promote tourism, actually paid Conan to visit. This was a good idea? Has Canada never heard of a tourist attraction? Come on folks, talk to Disney, I hear they could use the money. How about Disneyquios?
4. It's Triumph the insult comic dog, idiots. Or should I say "L'idiots?" I know there has to be a french word for insult. Don't the French-Canandians know it? the French-French sure seem to understand insults. What did you expect? Tony Robbins?
5. Is "francophone" a word? things are getting to easily into the dictionary. I can't say "ain't", but you make up a word that sounds like a recording device and just make it mean whatever the heck you want it to mean?
People, people. We can get past this. Just have a beer together, give each other a big hug, and forget about this crap. (Tip: hold your breath during the hug. They may not be the real French, but better safe than sorry.)
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