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burntcoppergoes sloooooooowly and turns brain to cheese. three days in and less than a third done. (on the H's in the Meditteranean, Middle East & Africa section - I know far more about the oil-producing capabilities of obscure areas of the Republic of Togo than I ever wanted to.) ack.
Joined, er, about 5 more SG:A fic communities. Experiencing the 'meh' towards a couple of fandoms on flist - where I used to read anything, now only clicking on the occasional fic where I know the author or the summary looks fabulous. There should be certain things *not allowed* in pretty much *any* fic. Original teenage daughters who have far too large a part and get more than five lines of dialogue and their own POV. (unless it's Due South, where you're normally pretty safe) Song bits. Puppy love *adore* squelchy get married between two men. Who've known each other for less than two months, are by nature fairly reticent with their feelings and are in a fricking historical setting. Yes, this includes AUs of present-day fandoms.
Oh, and I recently read Stargate fic which had them visiting a Norse culture, circa 900 AD. The author made shocked comments in one of the character's heads that the women didn't have shaved legs or armpits. Omigod, no! Say it isn't so! That's just so... so... :glares: amazingly, common in almost every culture pre-early 20th century. And even then it took a while for it to become common. :twats author: Late 20th century middle-america attitudes are not, in fact, common to other cultures.
Flicked through a mid-90s X-Men. Winced noticeably when some character made an observation about Betsy, that an English accent in an Asian body was cause for whiplash-causing note. Note that they didn't bother to say Japanese. Japanese I could've accepted, since we don't really have a large community of Japanese in the UK, not that have their own areas of cities, have time to raise their kids here, etc for it to be that common to have a Japanese 20-something with an English accent. Still, it's not exactly cause for notice. But the generic 'Asian' line... :bangs head against wall: So this would be anyone of Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Malaysian, or Thai descent, would it? The several thousand/million of them who were born here and have an English accent so thick you could float a brick in it.
This turned a tad ranty.
However, Dr Who tonight? When the reaction of her mum causes Dad to go 'Wow, been a while since I saw an actual mum on tv.' Also : Blue Peter! Squee!
... I want jelly. Either green, yellow or red.
Joined, er, about 5 more SG:A fic communities. Experiencing the 'meh' towards a couple of fandoms on flist - where I used to read anything, now only clicking on the occasional fic where I know the author or the summary looks fabulous. There should be certain things *not allowed* in pretty much *any* fic. Original teenage daughters who have far too large a part and get more than five lines of dialogue and their own POV. (unless it's Due South, where you're normally pretty safe) Song bits. Puppy love *adore* squelchy get married between two men. Who've known each other for less than two months, are by nature fairly reticent with their feelings and are in a fricking historical setting. Yes, this includes AUs of present-day fandoms.
Oh, and I recently read Stargate fic which had them visiting a Norse culture, circa 900 AD. The author made shocked comments in one of the character's heads that the women didn't have shaved legs or armpits. Omigod, no! Say it isn't so! That's just so... so... :glares: amazingly, common in almost every culture pre-early 20th century. And even then it took a while for it to become common. :twats author: Late 20th century middle-america attitudes are not, in fact, common to other cultures.
Flicked through a mid-90s X-Men. Winced noticeably when some character made an observation about Betsy, that an English accent in an Asian body was cause for whiplash-causing note. Note that they didn't bother to say Japanese. Japanese I could've accepted, since we don't really have a large community of Japanese in the UK, not that have their own areas of cities, have time to raise their kids here, etc for it to be that common to have a Japanese 20-something with an English accent. Still, it's not exactly cause for notice. But the generic 'Asian' line... :bangs head against wall: So this would be anyone of Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Malaysian, or Thai descent, would it? The several thousand/million of them who were born here and have an English accent so thick you could float a brick in it.
This turned a tad ranty.
However, Dr Who tonight? When the reaction of her mum causes Dad to go 'Wow, been a while since I saw an actual mum on tv.' Also : Blue Peter! Squee!
... I want jelly. Either green, yellow or red.
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Date: 2005-04-17 02:54 am (UTC)Yargh. Especially when London alone has over 130,000 Asian/British Asian Other (Japanese, Thai, Chinese, East Indian, etc., not Indian, Pakistani or Bangledeshi).
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Date: 2005-04-17 05:19 am (UTC)Because, see, in the States, when you say "Asian", you mean Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Malayasian, etc. etc. etc. You don't mean Indian subcontinent or anywhere other than that general Far East area.
Add into that the cliché that the UK is one big island filled with nothing but white people (which is a standard US cliché), and it makes sense. You don't say "Japanese", because you don't know if she's Japanese, and you remark on the accent, because you're convinced that everyone in Great Britain is white-to-the-point-of-glowing.
Irritating, yes, but a bit more explainable than...I don't know. How Rob Liefeld ever actually got a job.
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Date: 2005-04-17 07:36 pm (UTC)Oh yes. I am Malaysian-Chinese and when I first arrived in the UK, it took me a fair while to realise why almost everyone in the UK looked at me very oddly whenever I referred to myself as Asian. To me (and most people in Malaysia, I suspect), Asian=person from Asia. Seemed that, in the UK, Asian=people from Indian subcontinent. People like me=Orientals or similar but nonetheless a distinct category to "Asians"!