EDEC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Comedy Network, Commonwealth Of Nations, Whiteness Studies
6 Feb 2018
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Should we teach to de-colonize: how can we as treaty people be allies in decolonization, how can we philosophize in a way that is not colonial, how can we think in ways that are de-colonial. Whiteness studies: were not trying to call out people. We also don"t want to engage in practice of speaking or other people. What we can do we can disrupt what is going on (disrupt the impressions). Sketch of concerns, objections and problems that indigenous people are dealing with: Trevor n: looking at idea of modernization and how it pertains to common wealth countries: south african comedian, boarder control, colonization, common wealth games, go back where you came from, language assimilation guns and abc"s. Idea of discovering people ignorance: topic can be offensive if comedy is taken out, eurocentric identity assuming people don"t have history or culture.
