On Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 3:40:56 PM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:19:31 -0800 (PST), dsi1
> > wrote:
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> >On Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 1:01:29 PM UTC-10, wrote:
> >> On Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 4:32:35 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
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> >> > We don't have Polish jokes on this rock. It's a bad thing to make fun of the
> >> > intelligence of a people. Also, we don't have any Poles over here. Some folks
> >> > on the mainland think Polish-Americans enjoy Polish jokes.
> >> Nobody thinks that.
> >> > That's because there's not enough Polish-Americans yet for them to express
> >> > their true feelings. Maybe one day.
> >> There are plenty of Polish-Americans in St. Louis. Few of them would pretend
> >> to be OK with Polish jokes, yet you can bet your ass that a good percentage of
> >> them harbor racist feelings about Americans of non-European ancestry. The
> >> way that I worded my joke, most folks would realize that I was making fun of
> >> stereotyping. "Polish remover" is obviously not Polish, like Canada Dry ginger
> >> ale is not Canadian.
> >>
> >> --Bryan
> >Everybody knows what Polish jokes are and what they mean. Who the heck knows what Black or Japanese jokes are? I'm not concerned about how Polish-Americans feel about non-white people. My point is that the the Poles hold a special position in the US as far as being the butt of a specific type of joke.
> >
> >OTOH, ethnic jokes are pretty much the bread and butter of Hawaiian humor. The difference from mainland ethnic humor is that it requires that the audience be familiar with the culture, customs, and behavior of Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, et al. As it goes, if you're intimately aware of other people's lives and foibles, you can use that knowledge to connect with them.
> .
> So, all in all, would you say that Hawaiians are very special people?
That question is not mine to answer.