Today’s post comes to you on what is perhaps one of my most favorite days of the year: May Day.
No, not that one-
There we go.
That’s right comrades, pinkos, and fellow travelers! Today’s post marks not only the celebration of revolution and the working class across the globe but further touches off the first annual month-of-May celebration of all things leftist! Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Fame Day, government, money, morality, news, politics, Youth
Tagged 4th of July, ankara, athens, birthday, bombing, Christmas, class war, colombus day, drone, holiday, independence day, jakarta, lagos, loyalty day, May Day, Obama, paris, Protest, rights, socialism, socialist, solidarity, strike, Thanksgiving, wedding
This week was the one year anniversary of the Bangladesh tragedy. According to CBC News:
“More than 1,100 workers died and about 2,500 were injured on April 24, 2013, when the dangerously built eight-storey Dhaka-area building collapsed, the worst garment industry accident in history.”
This past Thursday, thousands of protestors returned to the site:
“The demonstrators – who included injured survivors and the families of the deceased – marched to the ruins of the nine-storey building carrying flowers and chanting slogans including “We want compensation!” and “Death to Sohel Rana!”, the owner of the building.”
Posted in Asia, money, morality, politics
Tagged American Government, Bangladesh factory, Canadian Government, Canadian Mines in Latin America, clothing, companies, compensation, death, documentary, fair trade, fashion, government, Hanes, injustice, local, manipulation, mining, Naomi Klein, No Logo, outsourcing, petition, protestors, Rana Plaza, second-hand, The Corporation, tragedy, Wikileaks
To begin with, I’m not the most unbiased person to be writing about this. “Sk8ter Boi” came out when I was attending a Canadian public school for the first time, and it had a fairly indelible effect on me. My being a fan of Avril Lavigne extended out into high school, and I can still remembering a friend getting me Let Go for my fourteenth birthday. As far as I’m concerned, some of her stuff continues to hold up.
Like most people I liked Under My Skin a fair amount, but wasn’t a huge fan of The Best Damn Thing. Watching the punk-pop star cavort around to the infectious beat felt wrong, like this was some sort of betrayal of who she started as. Of course, people change, and I eventually came around to tracks like “Hot” and “What the Hell”.
Years passed, and eventually she fell off my radar. I noted when she and Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 got a divorce and gawked at her marriage to the widely reviled Chad Kroeger of Nickelback. They recorded a song together and I thought not much of it.
Then I woke up one morning and signed online to a barrage of accusations leveled against her with “racist!” being the common denominator among them. Being fairly invested in this entire thing [as a lapsed Avril Lavigne fan and a person in staunch opposition to racism in any form] I of course had to check out the “Hello Kitty” music video post-haste. I do want to inform you all that I’ve had to watch it several times for the writing of this post and have not enjoyed it once.
Posted in Asia, bizarreness, celebrity, design, fashion, internet, morality, music, race
Tagged 2Yoon, appropriation, arigato, audience, Avril Lavigne, Canadian, context, cultural appropriation, fanbase, Japan, Japanese, kawaii, minna saikou, music video, racism, racist, representative, stereotype
GORDON: Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening. Our topic for tonight comes to us from the distant country of Sri Lanka, where a British woman has been deported for transgressing local standards of cultural and religious sensitivity… as a result of having a tattoo of Buddha on her arm…
KAT: Wow. Remind me to get my tattoo removed.
GORDON: You sport the Buddha on yourself?
KAT: Nah, it’s all just wishful thinking. I’m far too broke to have any ink.
(On textbooks)
Posted in Africa, America, Asia, bizarreness, Culture War Correspondence
Tagged America, buddha, buddism, Cultural, Cultural sensitivity, Culture, Culture War Correspondence, deportation, hinduism, insensitivity, middle-east, modesty, naomi coleman, Niger, sensitivity, sri lanka, Syria, tattoo
We deal with a lot of complicated issues here at Culture War Reporters, with subjects ranging from war to feminism to internet shows about gigantic hamburgers. Every once in a while, it’s nice to return to cover a simple and straightforward subject.
The sky is blue.
Birds go chirp.
Michelle Malkin is an evil, evil person.
I mean seriously. We’re talking about a woman who has written a book defending- I kid you not- the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.
Posted in America, Asia, history, Islam, morality, politics, race, religion, Shame Day
Tagged 14th ammendment, America, American, anchor baby, Arab, bigot, citizen, Dunkin Donuts, Executive Order 9066, in defense of internment: the case for 'racial profiling' in world war ii and the war on terror, internment, Japan, Japanese, Japanese Americans, jihad, keffiyah, manzanar, michelle malkin, Muslim, palestine, palestinian, prejudice, President Roosevelt, Rachael Ray, racial profiling, racism, racist, roosevelt, scarf, terrorist, US, WWII
You’ll notice, readers, that this post was published exactly at 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. This is partly because I want to avoid Evan’s routine beatings as punishment for tardiness, and mostly because you, as an overwhelmingly Western audience, expect everything to be exactly on time.
Now if you were all mostly from Bolivia, or Syria, or Morocco, or Thailand, chances are that you wouldn’t care so much. After all, 9:00 in the morning is really more of an approximation than anything else, right?
Taken from a rather insightful infographic on the differences between Eastern and Western cultures.
Posted in Africa, America, Asia, bizarreness, business, Europe, technology, Youth
Tagged african time, capitalist, cultural divide, East-vs-West, Futurism, gap, Generation, generational, germany, industrial, industry, middle-east, millennials, office, post scarcity, production, punctuality, Time, views, work
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