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Re:Belgian BB - 2007/03/27 12:47
Well the thing is, there's been some outrage in Belgium, but it's been fairly minimal, from what I can gather. I did find a report that now the tasks seem to be less violent and stressful, which I suppose means there's some reaction which has made it tone down. Because there's no reporting or info in English, and I don't speak their language, it's been difficult for me to track, and I first found it by seeing BB diehards discussing it in a BBBA forum, and then went searching for it from there - so I'm quite naive as to the reaction over there, because whilst it's certainly in their press, I can't read any of it! It's been hard to chase up on. But there's been a slight change in tone in the past few days in regards to the tasks, and you would presume that means there has been some aversion to it from somewhere, or surely the tasks would get worse, not easier.
But our press never uses such countries because our culture is really so racially "English-speaking-centric" (I'm sure there's a better term, but I just woke up, and it escapes me, right now!) that we cannot relate to them, and you'd find most people would put it down to "those crazy...(insert non-English speaking country here)" - even when there's no contextual knowledge to presume such a thing. We're not outraged in the same way, because we don't see it as a parallel culture to ours. If the same tasks were used in the English BB, or even the American (but the American version isn't very popular over there, so it has little social impact), then I'm sure we'd hear about it!
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