How can I match the previous awesome posts by Tinet?
I browsed desperately through Flickr for ideas. There was plenty of the stuff that Chirayliq are made of, including cute and mischievous Jews and cuddly grumpy Arabs (doesn't he look a bit like Adriano Celentano?) and their slightly insane admirers.*)
*) Yes, those are all devoted fans of the young prince of Dubai whom Sweden's crown princess Victoria visited a few months ago. I guess I am a bit insane too. I blame Tintin comics, they always had lots of cute swarthy Arabs running about in flowing robes. The stereotype totally backfired. Just look at this guy... mashallah!
But what really took the cake was this video found through the always entertaining desi blog Sepia Mutiny (!). Giju John (33) was born i Thiruvananthapuram, India, and is now an engineer in Silicon Valley. He also dances a mean salsa - Hindi style.
Watch out for the cute East Asian couple's acrobatic routine right before the end!
About us
Tinet - after many years of studying among other things the Russian language and the cultural history of Russia, the Soviet Union and the Middle East, she has moved to one of the many cities of her dreams (Berlin, Germany) and works as a gun for hire for various publishing companies with typesetting, graphic design, translating and writing, besides drawing comics about funny Russians. She dreams of making big fat richly illustrated coffee table books about the images of Central Asian, Caucasian or Russian men from a cultural historic angle.
Ainur - Ph.D. of History at the University of Lund, Sweden, who in her research has focused on nationalism, identity and stereotypes, mainly in the context of Finnish views on Swedes. She also draws historically correct comics about the Jazz age in the 1920's, which also deal with nationalism, identity and stereotypes, in a quite entertaining way.
Tinet and Ainur are sisters, and their ethnic background is as follows: 62.5% Finnish, 25% Mishär Tatar, 12.5% Kale (Finnish Roma).
2 comments:
Siis..., tää Eurooppa on kyllä PIENI. Jos olisin nuori tänään... tää on tietty vaan jossittelua, mut kuitenkin: reppu selkään ja maailmalle. Tekisinköös niin? En kai, mut on kiva haaveilla. Voisinhan tehdä sen nytkin, mutta en tee.
Mikä saa toiset seikkailijoiks ja toiset paikallaan nyhjöttäjiks? Eikä kummassakaan elämäntyylissä ole mitään vikaa.
Tänäpäivänä on tosi kivaa, että ees näkee kuvia muusta maailmasta ja voi jopa keskustella ihmisten kanssa ympäri maailmaa.
Eikä tartte olla ees miljönääri.
Olis vaan kiva sillai "käsin kosketella" asioita!
Äh, oon niin lattee!
AWWW. That music video is just ... AWWWWWW.
I think the fans of "Fazza3" (the '3' represents "ع" ("'ayn", that throat sound) in Arabic 1337 speak, by the way - Fazzâ' is the pen name under which he publishes his poems!) are no more insane than we are. We just try to hide behind a cool academic surface, while they express their feelings more freely ...
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Pikku äiti! Koska sä tulet taas tänne? Voidaan kattoa karvasia miehiä Weddingissä ja Kreuzbergissä. Ja ehkä sä voit kosketella käsinkin, ei sitä ikinä tiedä ...
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