Black superstitions censor book
Australia:
"Publishers of a book that teaches girls to play the didgeridoo will remove a key chapter after Aboriginal claims that it is highly offensive. The Daring Book for Girls, set to be published by HarperCollins in October, attracted criticism from indigenous commentators over a chapter which teaches girls how to play the didgeridoo.
Melbourne academic and Aboriginal education advocate Dr Mark Rose said it was an "extreme faux pas" on the part of HarperCollins as cultural protocols around the instrument include a ban on females touching or playing it. And he warned young girls faced infertility - or worse - if they played an instrument that should only ever be handled by men.
The publisher issued a statement apologising for the inclusion of the chapter.
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The didgeridoo is a primitive musical instrument with a very limited expressive range. It is basically a hollowed-out tree stem. And as Andrew Bolt points out, the black "tradition" concerned is hokey anyway.
15 comments:
So little Suzie can grow up to be anything she wants in life unless someone from a protected group objects. Yea, that's equality!
Now wait just one minute!
The didgeridoo is described as "an instrument that should only ever be handled by men." Where is all of the outcry from women claiming sexism and discrimination?
I'm so sick and tired of politically-correctness with its huge double-standards.
Why is it wrong to correct an error? If my culture centered around say ... apples ... and somebody NOT from my culture wrote about MY apples, I would surely want them to get the history, folklore and everything else right about MY apples.
anon3,
They didn't correct an error, they removed a chapter because it was a book for girls. Had it been a book for boys it would have been OK.
On the bright side, they didn't start any riots. Maybe they can replace that chapter with one on how to draw Mohammed. That would certainly be daring.
Well "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"!
Mobius
Anonymous,
What group is not permitted to handle YOUR apples ???
Well maybe the satanist malumophiles cannot, as they will surely undermine our entire civilization with their perverted views of fructuality (a sin surely condemned somewhere or other in the Old Testament - oh yes that talking snake in the Garden of Eden who was so intrigued by the criminal activities of those first humans stealing the apple from the tree he hung from).
anonymous #3's ignorance knows no bounds. Sheit (he/she/it) is even to afraid to post a name at the end of sheit's on comments.
And furthermore, it wasn't an apple in Eden, it was the fruit from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. And it wasn't stolen from Satan. He tempted Eve to eat which was in violation of GOD'S commandment. I guess you get this from some secularist cartoon.
Maybe you should stick to commenting on things you actually know about (which there are probably none), and go play with all of your other know-nothing fools at dailykos. Make sure you all share a glass of the koolaid that they spoon feed you there.
does the name peedoffamerican require great courage to type??
As the Garden of Eden was an allegorical myth, and the fruit was not specified as to its actual type, the fact that later paintings, etc. often depicted it as an apple simply embellishes what was only a myth in the first place; or that Satan in the form of a serpent was often depicted as hanging from that tree of knowledge didn't imply it was Satan's tree or his fruit.
" Anonymous said...
does the name peedoffamerican require great courage to type??"
Undoubtedly it does since you have failed to add a moniker of any type to your assinine post.
"didn't imply it was Satan's tree or his fruit."
But you implied it was his fruit in your post>
It was a reference to religious paintings depicting the serpent hanging from the tree of knowledge - it is you who think that implies it was Satan's tree.
So you regard the majority of posters here as "cowardly" because they don't bother to put some worthless moniker after their comments - you are just silly as well as rude, so I dub thee Mr. Silly&RudeAmerican
Still a coward, I see.
Have I suddenly become brave now according to your silly definition of "coward"?
signed: Mr Archibald Heatherington-Smythe
At least this will allow other posters to distinguish between posters, and not have several different anonymous unknowns. My whole point being that is easier to have a conversation if there is some type of name or descriptor that allows us to distinguish between posters.
By the way, I have used peedoffamerican for years on other sites, and also on my own blog.
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