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Topic: Smurf'isms
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Cheeky Smurf
Smurfling
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posted 03-10-2011 02:04 AM
Please pardon me for my cheekyness, for that is I, Cheeky Smurf.
But I am just following on from this topic.
Is Smurfette sexist?
Are the black smurfs really that offensive to humans?
How far could these smurf'isms go? It all seems to be a muddle.
Please take this light-heartedly, as I do ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Tra la la la la la, I'm smurfy as can be :)
Tra la la la la la, but don't you smurf with me :P
Posts: 48 | From: The Enchanted Forest | Registered: Mar 2011
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Squeaky Smurf
Hering Smurf
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posted 03-10-2011 03:07 PM
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Originally posted by Cheeky Smurf:
Please pardon me for my cheekyness, for that is I, Cheeky Smurf.
But I am just following on from this topic.
Is Smurfette sexist?
Are the black smurfs really that offensive to humans?
How far could these smurf'isms go? It all seems to be a muddle.
Please take this light-heartedly, as I do
Hi, Cheeky! Well, let's go:
I'm quite sure the time when Peyo created the Black Smurfs comic he had no intention of being offensive then; yet HB had the Black Smurfs turned purple, perhaps because they got worried over possible charges of racism; one must remember the cartoons were released in the 80s, when racism had decreased and there was some worry concerning it. I'm just trying to explain it, not exactly justifying. ![[GNAP!]](graemlins/gnap.gif)
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Keep on always smurfin'!!
Posts: 7507 | From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Registered: Jul 2008
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Vic George The ND Guy
Super Smurf
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posted 03-11-2011 05:44 AM
Speaking about racism, I was thinking of how Empath Smurf and Polaris Psyche both would deal with racism in each other's respective communities. Although the Psyches would not be permitted by the Psyche Master to act according to their own racist thoughts of the Smurfs being a "savage race" in regards to Empath being among them, they would still regard him in their thoughts as being different from themselves, which would spark the notion in Empath that he truly doesn't belong with the Psyches. I don't know how far a Smurf's racist belief extends to other beings beside themselves, but so far the only character I can see having a problem with Polaris would be Hefty, given that he isn't all that comfortable with Empath and his minds-eye abilities getting all that attention from his fellow Smurfs. For the most part, Polaris would earn more sympathy than hostility from the other Smurfs because he would be like Empath in his earlier days, as a sort of unemotional being trying to fit into an alien culture that seems more accepting than rejecting of his type of people. I bring up the issue of racism with the two characters given that the Psyches resemble Caucasians in appearance but are more Vulcanish in their behaviors, and also in my head the voice actors I imagine for the two characters are also of two different races -- Robert Duncan MacNeil (Empath) being Caucasian and Tim Russ (Polaris) being African-American.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
Posts: 4103 | From: Westfield, MA | Registered: Mar 2003
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