Newspaper clippings, and the story they tell.
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Jul. 8th, 2009 | 01:25 am
I'm hardly a keen critic of newspaper or political magazine news on-line, fragmented and biased as they may be. But today? The differences of headlines I came across were striking.
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I don't feel qualified to elaborate at length, but to me, the use of "ethnic" here comes across as telling. This may be my impression only, but the BBC usage highlights quite effectively that at least in Germanic language contexts (hey, that's what English is, at heart), the term is used as a - shorthand? Euphemism? for "minority" when comparing it with mainstream culture of the relevant location.
As for the rest - the content, the connotations - I guess I don't need to babble on for long about the importance of more than a single source of that elusive Truth.
Granted, the articles may have offered a more differentiated view, then. And yet: the first impression, the browse-by image to your retina remains powerful.
Large screenshots under the cuts.
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I don't feel qualified to elaborate at length, but to me, the use of "ethnic" here comes across as telling. This may be my impression only, but the BBC usage highlights quite effectively that at least in Germanic language contexts (hey, that's what English is, at heart), the term is used as a - shorthand? Euphemism? for "minority" when comparing it with mainstream culture of the relevant location.
As for the rest - the content, the connotations - I guess I don't need to babble on for long about the importance of more than a single source of that elusive Truth.
Granted, the articles may have offered a more differentiated view, then. And yet: the first impression, the browse-by image to your retina remains powerful.