Many of us intuitively understand it’s more permissible for people to openly judge or criticise social groups they belong to than those they do not belong to.
From early 1980s, communities have fought for the rights and needs of those affected. For example, faced with stigma, gay communities in the US provided prevention advice, care and support.
We must consider what AIDS meant to people in the 1980s and 1990s, and what HIV means today, at a time when antiretroviral therapies are being used successfully.
Ashish Gupta, Brand Director for Skoda India, said while performance cars like the Octavia RS are not too cheap, ‘car buyers who know and love their cars find them to be far better bang for the buck’.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Freud developed some interesting theories around ‘Jokework’ and wrote a very good book called Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Freud would’ve shared the authors’ intuition wrt joke telling and intent. Based on personal research done for a Master’s dissertation, popular comics in the realm of stand up comedy make more Joke’s about their own ethnicity (race isn’t a thing) followed by jokes about their own gender; cultural and political jokes came next. There were a few comics such as Russel Peters who however bucked the trend. He would make jokes about everyone. Very popular in international circles, his first few shows in India apparently didn’t go well. It took a while for Indian audiences to warm up to being made fun of. Of course now with acts such as Comicstan Indian comedy is going places.
Very useful area of research. Comedy is definitely a means to ameliorate ethnic and religious prejudice.
Let’s just do a study on anything and that will explain it,
God, I wish I had gone for that PhD in Interracial camping trips in South America during the rainy season after Christmas focusing on the grieving process of Pygmies in the Rain Forest.
Freud developed some interesting theories around ‘Jokework’ and wrote a very good book called Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Freud would’ve shared the authors’ intuition wrt joke telling and intent. Based on personal research done for a Master’s dissertation, popular comics in the realm of stand up comedy make more Joke’s about their own ethnicity (race isn’t a thing) followed by jokes about their own gender; cultural and political jokes came next. There were a few comics such as Russel Peters who however bucked the trend. He would make jokes about everyone. Very popular in international circles, his first few shows in India apparently didn’t go well. It took a while for Indian audiences to warm up to being made fun of. Of course now with acts such as Comicstan Indian comedy is going places.
Very useful area of research. Comedy is definitely a means to ameliorate ethnic and religious prejudice.
I believe that offensive humour can actually help break down barriers and challenge prejudice.
But the main question arises that can someone’s susceptibility to offence can trump someone’s right to free speech ?
Let’s just do a study on anything and that will explain it,
God, I wish I had gone for that PhD in Interracial camping trips in South America during the rainy season after Christmas focusing on the grieving process of Pygmies in the Rain Forest.
Mother could never tell a joke. Half way through, she would start laughing and – we loved her so much – we would all join in.