Today I have read that Indians are burning big brother poster in protest. Can anyone tell me how this is an appropriate way of demonstrating, especially over a TV Game show? Does this not show certain cultures must be backward and uneducated if this is the only way they feel they can get their point across in a hostile threatening way? Would you ever see a non minority person in the streets acting this way? How do these people ever expect to gain any respect from other communities when they act in this way?
2007-01-17 02:38:06 · 24 answers · asked by madasads 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Exactly mate.
If someone English (white) was eating a Chinese with chop sticks & another person said something like "gotta be careful - you don't know where those hands have been to" then nothing would be said. If it was someone Chinese, Indian or whatever then it's racist. Stupid.
2007-01-17 02:48:56 · answer #1 · answered by Sluugy 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I do not think burning flags and/or posters in protest is an act only done by "backward or uneducated minorities." It is neither "civilised" nor "uncivilised." The symbolic value lessens each time you see the same old act. I DO think it is the protest of the weak and impotent. I particularly enjoyed the display by the veiled Indonesian women chanting and holding their "Death to the Infidel" signs. I assume that Hindu females in India do not choose this kind of impotent protest.
Yes, protesting a TV game show, or protesting some cartoon in a Danish newspaper/magazine is proof that there are "backward and uneducated" elements who are easily stirred up and are more than happy to be led to the local foreign embassy or fast food restaurant to "get their point across in a hostile and threatening way." Since these people are really lacking any kind of international consciousness, they really do not care if they earn respect from the "infidels" or "outsiders."
2007-01-17 03:03:10 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's just plain silly. The flag is a symbol and it means a lot to a great many people. When someone burns the flag is really is deeply offensive. Aren't there better ways to protest the action of "people" with whom you disagree?? You know, a person may disagree with religion, but is appropriate to burn their symbols to excercise your disagreement? You know I'm no fan of the current administration and the things they have done, but the US Flag represents over 200 years of things about which I am pretty doggone proud. The actions of an ignorant few will not cause me to feel less proud of my country or feel the need to burn my own flag to make a point that in the end only makes me look ridiculous. I'm sure you can find better ways to show your dissent that might actually make people take notice of the point you are trying to make. Good luck with that.
2016-05-24 00:01:14 · answer #3 · answered by AnnaMaria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never watched big brother and i have no intention of doing so, but i would think that if this situation had never of arisen no one in India would even be aware of big brothers existence. There must be factories out in the far east that manufacture these things, for no other reason than to sell to people so they can burn them. Its the same as flags, why would you have a UK or US flag if you lived in the far east, if you hadn't bought it for the sole purpose of burning it?
2007-01-17 02:50:21 · answer #4 · answered by Max 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's obvious you either haven't been on this earth very long, or haven't bothered to take a good look around you... one of the two.
Burning of flags, effigies... whatever... is a pretty common form of demonstration. How effective it is at getting a point across is certainly disputable, but what you can't dispute is that it's been done by people of just about every race/creed/ethnicity.
What exactly is a 'non-minority' person, btw? Why not just say 'white'. That's what you mean. Well, if you want plenty of footage of 'non-minorities' burning flags, start looking through fische of 1960s war demonstrations.
2007-01-17 02:45:57 · answer #5 · answered by Just Some Guy 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well, if you consider American caucasians a minority, then sure, your argument holds weight. Flag burning in this country has gone on for decades, and has been done more than not by white Americans. So...is the American 'culture' backward and uneducated?
2007-01-17 02:48:02 · answer #6 · answered by Enchanted 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What's wrong with burning flags & posters? Nobody gets hurt.
It's a peaceful form of protest.
Certainly more civilized than burning crosses on somebody's lawn. (I believe that's usually done by "non-minority" types)
2007-01-17 03:00:38 · answer #7 · answered by evilnotwin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is alien to my way of thinking. What happens on a British TV game show is no business of people in another country. None negotiable.
2007-01-17 04:42:33 · answer #8 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a symbol. Why should they not burn a poster or flag and they are not uneducated minorities.
2007-01-17 04:55:08 · answer #9 · answered by James Mack 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Uneducated mainly
2007-01-17 02:41:54 · answer #10 · answered by colin050659 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋