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Students criticize 'Mikado' play for 'cultural appropriation'
Campus Reform ^ | April 19, 2018 | Mitchell Gunter

Posted on 04/19/2018 7:55:29 AM PDT by C19fan

Some students at Fort Hays State University (FHSU) in Kansas say a school-sponsored operetta production is not only “racist,” but also rife with “cultural appropriation.”

FHSU Music and Theatre describes its production of The Mikado as “a fun burlesque romp about the whimsy of love” on its Facebook page. According to the operetta’s description, the play takes place “in a mythical Japan,” where the main character “has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado.”

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: arts; asia; culture; japan; leftismoncampus; mikado; thearts
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Hey Ho, Hey Ho, Aida and Madame Butterfly Has Got to Go!
1 posted on 04/19/2018 7:55:29 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

“Some students”. The ones that don’t know what fun is unless it’s pointing their fingers and screeching “RACIST”.


2 posted on 04/19/2018 7:58:11 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: C19fan

I’m sorry the snowflakes feewlings are hurt. I guess no culture can appreciate another. But, isn’t that racist? Poor racist snowflakes...


3 posted on 04/19/2018 7:59:43 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Crucial

To a hammer, everything is a nail. They are good little Chekists.


4 posted on 04/19/2018 8:01:15 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Can you even imagine!!!??? For some people that’s their sole hobby in life. I guess more fun stuff for me until they come for it.......


5 posted on 04/19/2018 8:02:33 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: C19fan

The whole cultural appropriation thing is such idiocy.

Cultural marxism — of course, any marxism — is a pox upon our planet.


6 posted on 04/19/2018 8:04:08 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: C19fan

The Mikado is great fun. The PC idiots take all joy out of living.


7 posted on 04/19/2018 8:05:30 AM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: C19fan
There is an old movie called Topsy Turvy which covers the creation of The Mikado. It is kind of a long movie 2-1/2 hrs, but it has most of the music of the Mikado in it and it was the introduction of Jim Broadbent to me, as it was the first film I saw him in. He was Gilbert of the Gilbert and Sullivan team. I enjoyed this movie; but, you would have to be okay with listening to Gilbert and Sullivan music.
8 posted on 04/19/2018 8:06:49 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: C19fan
Maybe cutting to close to home? As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I’ve got a little list — I’ve got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground, And who never would be missed — who never would be missed! There’s the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs — All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs — All children who are up in dates, and floor you with ’em flat — All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like that — And all third persons who on spoiling tête-á-têtes insist — They’d none of ’em be missed — they’d none of ’em be missed!
9 posted on 04/19/2018 8:07:49 AM PDT by small farm girl (....)
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All theatre is cultural appropriation from the Greeks. :/


10 posted on 04/19/2018 8:09:38 AM PDT by Fhios (Mr. Magoo, where are you?)
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To: C19fan

More candidates for the wood chipper when the revolution comes.


11 posted on 04/19/2018 8:12:38 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: beethovenfan

No kidding. The Mikado is great fun. Leftists are like vampires, cursed undead who suck the life out of everything.


12 posted on 04/19/2018 8:17:40 AM PDT by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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To: beethovenfan

As Dennis Prager often notes, the Left destroys everything it touches.


13 posted on 04/19/2018 8:19:08 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: Little Ray

We’re going to need a bigger wood chipper.


14 posted on 04/19/2018 8:19:24 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: C19fan

I’ve been to Hayes KS. I’m pretty sure that the Japanese population is small if non-existent.


15 posted on 04/19/2018 8:19:45 AM PDT by Mercat
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We’ll need lots of wood chippers and helicopters.


16 posted on 04/19/2018 8:23:06 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: C19fan

The very imperfect ablutioners are full of Poo.

BAH!


17 posted on 04/19/2018 8:27:07 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: small farm girl

Don’t forget the Banjo Serenader and the others of his race...

Or the Lady Novelist.

I’ve got her on the list!


18 posted on 04/19/2018 8:28:44 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: C19fan
At some point, "cultural appropriation" becomes part of the culture of the appropriators. Over the centuries, noodles become Italian, potatoes become Irish, curry becomes British and giant steel foundries become Indian. Whites get maize (plus an awful lot of land) and the Sioux and Commanche get horses and guns (most likely not the better deal).

The Mikado becomes a part of English culture, more about England than some mythical Japan. A paradox that Gilbert and Sullivan might appreciate: if the Kansas kids stage an "authentic" Noh or Kabuki drama, wouldn't that be more of a "cultural appropriation" than putting on a hundred year old British comic opera?

Or are kids in the middle of America appropriating British culture by putting on Gilbert and Sullivan?

19 posted on 04/19/2018 8:30:35 AM PDT by x
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Here is a bunch of Japanese people saying how broken up they are about people other than Japanese wearing kimonos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pXotxxYFlk

Hint: they ain’t that broken up about it.


20 posted on 04/19/2018 8:31:38 AM PDT by GraceG ("Trust, But Verify the Plan!")
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