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Sirotnikov
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<--- Yes, It's a "kitty" in a boot.
Feb 2000
time: 07:25
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Danish Scout Camp Features Nazi GameBy Associated Press
January 23, 2003, 7:54 PM EST
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A Danish scout group acknowledged it "may have crossed the line" by organizing a game of tag in which adults pretending to be Nazis chased children dressed as Jews around a phony concentration camp.
The Danish Christian FDF scout group put up swastikas and Nazi-type signs and had the children wear yellow Stars of David as they were chased around the school yard at the Kongeaadal school, 161 miles southwest of Copenhagen.
One sign had the German words "Arbeit macht frei," or "Work will set you free," the infamous inscription over the entrance of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
"I was shocked," Johanna Christiansen, whose two daughters took part, told the Ekstra Bladet newspaper on Thursday. "It's wrong to expose children to this."
Jes Imer, of the local FDF chapter, told the tabloid B.T. that organizers "may have crossed the line this time with a night game where Nazis chase Jews."
"I don't know whether I should apologize," Imer told B.T. of the incident last weekend. "I didn't want the game to hurt anyone."
The group of about 160 scouts, aged 11-14 included a dozen teenagers from the Danish-speaking minority in northern Germany.
Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press
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Static Universe
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Really, how is this any different than Scouts in America playing Cowboys and Indians?
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aaglo
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the contradiction is filled with holes...
Aug 2001
time: 07:25
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Don't forget these Finnish candies. 
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When Mark Wadsworth, board member of the British Anti-Racist Alliance, questioned the "comical" black cartoon characters used by Fazer as being insulting, racist, unfunny and outdated, this made big headlines in Finnish evening newspapers.
Since Wadsworth is also a consultant for the EU in issues of anti-racism, his protest was considered as another example of how the union membership threatens to homogenize Finnish culture, erasing traditional things well loved. "Fazer's liquorish threatened with boycot and Bruessels: 'The image of negro boy is insulting'", and "'Insulting towards the black!' Will EU ban Fazer's liquorish boy?", the tabloids of Ilta Sanomat, Finland's biggest evening paper, cried. |
Source: http://www.translocal.net/ground/pr.../lakuindex.html
Last edited by aaglo on 24-01-2003 at 15:26
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CerberusIV
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In europe some people are racist. Occasionally they get elected to local authorities or they do stupid things and get exposed in the press. There is a big fuss and they get slapped down or voted out after a while. I would rather that than pretend racism doesn't exist.
Last edited by CerberusIV on 24-01-2003 at 15:04
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Pekka
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em seu burro dos pais!
Feb 2002
time: 07:25
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DroseDars, I see the problem with this game now, sure.
But we didn't think it that way when we were kids, like the black man is bad or anything. It was just fun to run and have someone to chase you.
Just like cowboys and indians.. plus we don't have that much black people here, and in 80's I think I saw maybe one or two in Helsinki, the capital. I think there's a big difference the game being played in deep south 1950's and in here in elementary school, it didn't mean anything here really. They had to think it over again since now there are black kids and all, so small modifications are done like 'who's afraid of the green man' or so.
Also, I'm not sure if it meant black man as African, but more like black the colour.. Not sure, but we never thought of it as African man, but as black man, since it was pointing straight to the black man (not african) in our language. So I'm not sure if it translates that well to english 
Anyway it was a fun game 
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