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I realize that it’s based on a movie, but it always surprises me how acceptable in the US are jokes about Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine “The big Leplowski”
by throwaway6767 5y ago
I realize that it’s based on a movie, but it always surprises me how acceptable in the US are jokes about Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine “The big Leplowski” for a different group of people? It would cause an outrage.
- nkrisc 5y agoWhy are you making this about Eastern Europeans? There are countless Americans with that last name, it’s an American movie, and as I recall the characters in the movie bearing that name are American. Lastly, these snowplows are also in the US. Everything about this is American. Eastern Europeans don’t enter into it.
- throwaway6867 5y agoIt’s a Eastern European name. Countless Americans have it because they are of Eastern European origin.
- munk-a 5y agoThat's part of what it means to be a melting pot culture. The Big Leplowski isn't insulting or deriding some individual or family out of malice - it's a celebration of an important cultural production.
- 0des 5y agoThe entire world makes jokes about USA and a lot of them treats it as their duty to comment and laugh about various aspects of USA. This is human, and it is what makes global society great. You just want to screech about something. You couldn't even use a real account for it. You knew you aren't being a good sport.
- nkrisc 5y agoSorry, it’s an American name now too. I have an “Eastern European” last name too but I’m not Eastern European. My family has been in the US for at least three generations and come from all over Europe and different ethnic groups therein. I can’t call myself anything but American, and my last name is now American too.
- rottencupcakes 5y agoWhat's the joke about Eastern Europeans? Both Lebowskis in the movie are American born.
- GauntletWizard 5y agoI don't think most Americans would even see the stereotype to be offended about; I certainly don't. Jeff Lebowski identifies to me as a stereotype, but as a stereotypical personality type, with no racial/cultural connotation to it.
- NikolaeVarius 5y ago
- peanut_worm 5y agohow is the films title a joke? are you kidding?
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- selimthegrim 5y agoThe movie didn’t star Mike Ditka, if you recall.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoOne of the jokes in The Big Lebowski is about a Mexican-looking guy called Jesus (with the English pronunciation of the name).
- jsiaajdsdaa 5y agoWould Plowtrick O'Plowihan be more acceptable?
- wolverine876 5y agoVery possibly I don't understand: It is the name of a movie, if that helps explain it.
- aspyct 5y agoDude, I'm European and never once thought of Lebowski as anything other than American. Tune your sensitivity down, mate. Plus, what's offending about all this?