Can you notice that it’s a bit leaning to the right?
To be fair the Italians have a 500+ year history of mixing up Indigenous Americans and Indians.
This Italian "newspaper" wanted to depict the "indian heritage" of an US candidate. Chennai, Cherokee, the same.
Submitted 3 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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kvasir476@lemmy.world 3 months ago
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s tradition!
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
spice-y take!
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, literally. Columbus thought he was landing in South Asia.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Europeans: Americans are so obsessed with race
Also Europeans:
sudneo@lemm.ee 3 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.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I mean, they’re right. The European version of racism is much more inattention and inexperience-fueled. This is arguably an example.
huginn@feddit.it 3 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.
suction@lemmy.world 3 months ago
[deleted]Siethron@lemmy.world 3 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
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
reddit_sux@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Europeans mistaking Americans for Indians for centuries.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Specifically Italians, at that.
EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Classic Italian mistake.
index@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Italian here, they probably did it on purpose so that people would repost it and they succeeded.
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 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.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Perhaps they could remove some clothing and make her very muscular
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 months ago
But the body is old white dude - gotta keep the racist theme going.
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fucking Italians man…
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 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.
sudneo@lemm.ee 3 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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yes, thx, I know, along with other inaccuracies it’s for the art of shit & giggles.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
English can be confusing
Donut@leminal.space 3 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
goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 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.
Donut@leminal.space 3 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)
orrk@lemmy.world 3 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
sudneo@lemm.ee 3 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.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Everything about this image is completely messed up
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
She’s not Native American. Adding random head pieces to Native Americans is reductive and historically used to discount their opinion.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
WTF?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 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.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Giorgia Merdoni
Nice one
absquatulate@lemmy.world 3 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.
Chozo@fedia.io 3 months ago
her indian heritage
You're right at the cusp of understanding.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 months ago
No, they aren’t.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is that Elizabeth Warren?
DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world 3 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.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 3 months ago
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)
SaltySalamander@fedia.io 3 months ago
Spaghetti westerns are called that because they originate from Italy.
sudneo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Westerns are generally quite liked by the older generation. Leone’s masterpieces are definitely cult movies that most people have watched.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ah, that explains it.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 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).