Pacific Forum - view from Oz papers
from W and P
We bought the Age, Herald-Sun and Australian newspapers today just to see their views on the South Pacific Forum. As expected most articles praised Howard, but some papers had a bet both ways re Australia's sometime 'big-stick' colonial attitude. I wonder what John is saying to Laisenia Qarase? Maybe - 'I'm as tall as you are after all,- even though he is standing on a step or something! As usual cartoonists looked at stereotypes of Pacific (old) customs!
We bought the Age, Herald-Sun and Australian newspapers today just to see their views on the South Pacific Forum. As expected most articles praised Howard, but some papers had a bet both ways re Australia's sometime 'big-stick' colonial attitude. I wonder what John is saying to Laisenia Qarase? Maybe - 'I'm as tall as you are after all,- even though he is standing on a step or something! As usual cartoonists looked at stereotypes of Pacific (old) customs!
posted by Peceli and Wendy's Blog at 7:44 PM
2 Comments:
*sigh*
It's amazing how deeply rooted peoples' stereotypes become. I've met Westerners that still find it hard to believe that many Japanese eat hamburgers...and don't know martial arts.
Yes, seems the first thing people think about is the old dietary preferences!
At least some of the artists noticed Howard's on-going colonialist view of the Pacific.
W.
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