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Post by OdinofOssetia on Aug 10, 2005 14:53:30 GMT -5
Don't know how that was possible, because I lived in Communist Poland, and they had frequently on TV and in the cinemas films/documentaries/movies about, or even from, other countries, including the Western ones. Perhaps things were different in the U.S.S.R., but I don't know that since I never lived there. In USSR showed documental programms about foreign countries (one of them was "Around the World" which I watched with big interest), also in news showed something what happened in other countries. But then in TV rarely showed films, made in capitalist countries (especially from USA) and they were carefully selected. Also there weren't such things as MTV etc. So for me life outside USSR was something far away from real life. Also such groups of people as africans, indians, arabs etc. for me were something unreal, what don't exist in real life and I thought that it is impossible to meet them in whole my life, because I thought then that they live so far away as it is moon. In Communist Poland we did have quite many Western movies (including many from the U.S.A.) shown, like the Dirty Harry movies, many Westerns, sci-fi, war movies, comedies, cartoons, the Muppets Show , and a great many others; they were shown both on TV and in the cinemas. I doubt they were specifically selected or censored, as I have seen the same movies in the West, and they were the same.
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Post by greatness on Aug 10, 2005 17:18:46 GMT -5
When I was young and first saw a black person I didn't think they were part of another race. I thought they had just dyed their skin black, and I wanted to dye my skin blue at that point.
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Post by molika on Aug 10, 2005 19:54:14 GMT -5
Thanks Nock...I can relate to the internal divisons between regions you mentioned. We can/could tell what city someone was from just by their dialect (accent) and treated them accordingly ;D
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Post by zemelmete on Aug 11, 2005 12:49:24 GMT -5
In Communist Poland we did have quite many Western movies (including many from the U.S.A.) shown, like the Dirty Harry movies, many Westerns, sci-fi, war movies, comedies, cartoons, the Muppets Show , and a great many others; they were shown both on TV and in the cinemas. I doubt they were specifically selected or censored, as I have seen the same movies in the West, and they were the same. I try to remeber at least one american film which has been showed in TV at my childhood in Soviet Union, but I can't. The only american thing I rememer are some cartoons for children, that's all. I think that in Poland weren't so strong censorial restrictions as in Soviet Union.
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Post by eds on Aug 12, 2005 16:00:28 GMT -5
few stereotypes we had:
albanians: dirty and extremist serbs: cetnik montenegrin: lazy french: stupid and tiny people americans: violent & dumb croats: ustase & like to show off arabs: dirty and beat their ladies indians: eat mice and anything that they could romanians: prostitute gypsy: dirty begars (the worst!) bulgarians: poor greeks: arabs russians: vooodka bosnians: stab and hate each others
what else? guess thats enough!
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Post by tictactoe on Aug 15, 2005 10:24:35 GMT -5
Italians: noisy but good friends Slavs: less dilligent Chinese: very dilligent People from India: our ancestors
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Post by tictactoe on Aug 15, 2005 10:43:10 GMT -5
From my childhood: My parents told us that 'Goys' were different from us, though not inferior or to be avoided. We needed to be aware that some might hate us unfairly because we were Jews. I was told, and immediately did not believe because it was illogical, that "every Goy has at least once in some point in his life hated Jews." My father's parents were strongly prejudiced against Black people, and quite a few times as a very young child heard mutterings about "The Schwartzes." (Yiddish for Blacks). The grandparents were very old and crotchety and big complainers, and the rants were part of the package. murphee you are a formidable very honest person. Hope the antisemites don't misuse your honesty for their evil reasons.
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Post by murphee on Aug 15, 2005 12:42:12 GMT -5
Thanks--I try my best to be. I try to be accurate and as much of a moral and upright person as I can be, but there will always be people who will dislike me--nothing new--everyone experiences that.
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Post by murphee on Aug 15, 2005 12:46:10 GMT -5
The way I see it: as long as there are Jews, there will be anti-Semites. It's the same for all the other ethnic groups, also. It's the way of the world.
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