Brown face

Where do I start
I'm uncomfortable
The easier wrong to call out is the rap
What were they thinking saying  fucking Chinese.
It can come out in a novel maybe not a rap. Not in Singapore
Even in America I cant think of people being okay with a rap song that say s fucking nuggets or fucking whites

Sorry I stand corrected. She said the Chinese were fucking things up. Would it have been less offensive if she had said Chinese were messing things up?

So easy to call out so easy to get distracted

The harder wrong to call out is the brown face
A Chinese man portrayed a Malay lady in a tudong and an Indian man with an oily curly wig with darkened skin

Most Chinese may not be able to see the harm in it
Apparently he cross dresses often and this is in character
How would non Chinese know that?

How do we explain why brownface is offensive?
Caricature. Reducing people to physical appearances.
Suggesting cant fond talented people of NJ oriy races to portray in the ad. Which is rubbish. We have a good pool of TV talent.

For a minority to call it out the minority have to be brave . Risk being called sensitive and dealt with awkwardly in future conversations. Not even fellow minority may support you coz they risk ostracism too. Some minority may not get whh its offensive too.
Sigh

Like when i was a new teacher and did not how to articulate what made me uncomfortable about girls dressing skimpily in what they called sarees. And that child walking into serangoon road and saying we so smelly. Or that girl desceiving me as having golliwog hair and possibly not knowing how offensive that is

And my stupid well meaning boss saying I'm one of the better Indian mums he knows! Who is comparing me against? Paragon of virtues the Chinese mum? Like there is a type! Grr

Back to the issue at hand. I just realised the rapper didnt say fuckingnchinese. They said the Chinese were ficking things up. And it stated not all Chinese. Just the racists.

The power of politics.
1  they present the tap song as attacking a whole race
2. They remove the video so no one can verify it
3. They mistake the use of the word fuck as a label vs a synonym for messing things up.
4. They distract from the larger issue and attack the small easy to smack problem.

Plus..  the guy in the video has been cut out of another cna video about local musicians. Coz people are terrified of the state.
Animal farm and 1984 well and alive beneath a veneer of all being well

I have many questions

How come the agency thought it was okay to use a Chinese guy to rep malay and Indians?

Why are we not talking about the aeriousbstuff preeti brings up at the end

We may never talk about the tough stuff we need to talk about. About race in Singapore.

What we can do now
Talk about why brown face is offensive in the papers and in social studies
Talk about these at the curriculum planning level first