This Italian "newspaper" wanted to depict the "indian heritage" of an US candidate. Chennai, Cherokee, the same.

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• DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  American in Italy here! I am not justifying this, just explaining it from an Italian perspective. First, the paper is not mixing up her Indian heritage here with Native American. They took the idea that she is seeking a white male VP running mate and wrote “hunting for a white man”, which conjured up a funny (to them) homage to native Americans in spaghetti westerns. Second, this paper is a sensationalist rag sold in grocery store checkout lanes, with no expectation for the stories to be good, or free of any number of unsavory isms.

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  • Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    native Americans in spaghetti westerns.

    I’m not sure how it is in Italy, but a lot of the older Italians I know absolutely love old westerns (of… Varying quality)

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    • SaltySalamander@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Spaghetti westerns are called that because they originate from Italy.

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    • sudneo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Westerns are generally quite liked by the older generation. Leone’s masterpieces are definitely cult movies that most people have watched.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Second, this paper is a sensationalist rag sold in grocery store checkout lanes,

    ah, that explains it.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, this about covers it (correctly).

    And it is pointing at racism (it’s no secret the “had” to get a white male of certain age).

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• kvasir476@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair the Italians have a 500+ year history of mixing up Indigenous Americans and Indians.

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s tradition!

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    spice-y take!

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, literally. Columbus thought he was landing in South Asia.

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• Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Europeans: Americans are so obsessed with race

  Also Europeans:

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  • sudneo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This has almost nothing to do with race (or at least with hers), it’s just a dumb analogy to play with the title in a western movie fashion. “Hunting the white man” refers to the search for a white vice-president that would play well with “wasp” population.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, they’re right. The European version of racism is much more inattention and inexperience-fueled. This is arguably an example.

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    • huginn@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is not my experience in Italy.

      Just ask a European about gypsies or African migrants. It will get very racist very quickly.

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  • suction@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    [deleted]

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    • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t it on that red planet near Solo?

      This joke might not be good but I’m proud of it’s layers

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Corporate needs you to find the difference…

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• reddit_sux@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Europeans mistaking Americans for Indians for centuries.

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  • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Specifically Italians, at that.

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    • EpeeGnome@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Classic Italian mistake.

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• index@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Italian here, they probably did it on purpose so that people would repost it and they succeeded.

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s even worse if you consider that it’s still offensive to Photoshop that on her even if she was Native American.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Perhaps they could remove some clothing and make her very muscular

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But the body is old white dude - gotta keep the racist theme going.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fucking Italians man…

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I prefer Italian women, but you know … when on a road leading to Rome (but walking in the opposite direction for obvious reasons), one has to keep an open mind.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, at least it’s casual racism, not precessional.
  Oh, it’s a newspaper, so a bit professional I guess, but like they didn’t use their “best” racists.

  /s

  Also who are the white folk they are referring to?
  The other dude in the race is clearly orange (of some rapey citrus heritage). And the “catching” part, well, statistically speaking as DA she prob didn’t do that much of that color either.

  Everything around this is multilevel horribly resist, and yet the reality is several parallel universes ahead.

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  • sudneo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The “hunt” for the white man refers to her search for a white guy as a vice-president that can appeal to the “wasp” population. It’s a reference to western movies. The article is fully on her search for a vice-president and the “real” motivations for her choice.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, thx, I know, along with other inaccuracies it’s for the art of shit & giggles.

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• Donut@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a European I will admit I have no idea what’s “wrong” with the picture. Other than it just looking like a mouthpiece for people instead of actually reporting things

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  • goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone, somewhere has misinterpreted the fact that US presidential candidate Kamala Harris (pictured center) is of Indian ancestry - as in her family is from the country in south Asia - and instead photoshopped her into the stereotypical Native American “Indian” aesthetic. Why they have chosen to do this eludes me.

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    • Donut@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ohh! As a European I do know the difference between those two types. It just didn’t click that they got it wrong, I thought they had the feathers wrong (like part of the wrong native American tribe or something)

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    • orrk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      because they don’t actually know WHAT Indian she is, didn’t bother to look into it, and assumed it to be the American one

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    • sudneo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No it’s not that. Another comment explains it above, and it has to do with Western movies. Il tempo is usually just recommended to clean windows, but it’s not what you (or OP) suggests.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everything about this image is completely messed up

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    She’s not Native American. Adding random head pieces to Native Americans is reductive and historically used to discount their opinion.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WTF?

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• BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  English can be confusing

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You don’t even need to guess it based on whatever USA they posted at the centre. Just look at Giorgia Merdoni at the left.

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  • RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Giorgia Merdoni

    Nice one

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• absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re offended that a foreign xenophobic tabloid did not accurately depict her indian heritage in a goddamn caricature? Come on man, live and let live.

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    her indian heritage

    You're right at the cusp of understanding.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, they aren’t.

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is that Elizabeth Warren?

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