Whoa check this out @soumya0985 sorry to pick on you but you're the only Indian I know.
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In this case, I happen to be the perfect Indian to pick on cause the Apu trilogy is in Bengali, my mother tongue and Satyajit Ray is like a national hero to us Bengalis. I do find the the whole Simpson's Apu controversy a bit overblown, but that could be a 1st vs 2nd gen 1/
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Immigrant thing. The experience of growing up in India and then migrating is very different from ab Indian kid growing up as a minority here. There is a possibility it leaves one more sensitive to the particular details of how one's community is portrayed in mass media.
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Yup, exactly, same here. I did get glimpses of the scale of the Apu problem after moving as an adult though, especially from non-western international students who were less guarded.
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@jeffwilsontech more is how badly Matt Groenig insults everyone's intelligence by suggesting people would watch the Simpsons and be inspired to watch the Apu trilogy. It's like saying Friends will inspire greater interest in Paleontology. -
Lol, on that I completely agree. That is a blatant bad faith argument. I would bet a year's salary that nobody ever has been turned onto the Apu trilogy and Ray's other works from watching Apu in Simpson's.
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But Andy Lewis gets at it, the Apu controversy is sustained entirely by Simpsons people tripping over themselves in their response. I haven't seen any hyperbole from anyone who brought it up.https://twitter.com/andyblewis/status/1019695924178644992 …
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So many self owns born of self pity
- "I love Indian culture and Indian film and Indian music."
- "Who’s a better Indian animated character in the last 30 years?"
- "I’ve been to India twice.."
- "they’re picking the wrong battles."
- "criticized for having an Indian character" - 1টি আরও উত্তর
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I didn't think the creation use of that character could get worse and I was very, very wrong. Wow - it's appalling on a whole new level!
ধন্যবাদ। আপনার সময়রেখাকে আরো ভালো করে তুলতে টুইটার এটিকে ব্যবহার করবে। পূর্বাবস্থায়পূর্বাবস্থায়
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Perhaps Apu could make it his life’s mission to complete Ray’s unfinished Sci-Fi film.
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Too late Spielberg did it with “E.T”...lol...
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Simpsons future plot line : Spielberg arrives in Springfield wanting to make a film about his favourite subject, Middle America, Apu tells him his great idea for a sci-fi movie, Spielberg goes away & makes it, Apu goes apeshit when he finds out, everybody laughs...
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...Spielberg relents & adds a shot of KwikiMart & conspicuous product placement with Apu centre stage...everyone’s happy...
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"When they were making 'The Alien' " , which Steven Spielberg later stole and 'created' ET
ধন্যবাদ। আপনার সময়রেখাকে আরো ভালো করে তুলতে টুইটার এটিকে ব্যবহার করবে। পূর্বাবস্থায়পূর্বাবস্থায়
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লোড হতে বেশ কিছুক্ষণ সময় নিচ্ছে।
টুইটার তার ক্ষমতার বাইরে চলে গেছে বা কোনো সাময়িক সমস্যার সম্মুখীন হয়েছে আবার চেষ্টা করুন বা আরও তথ্যের জন্য টুইটারের স্থিতি দেখুন।