Comments on: Iconographical Racism? http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/03/13/iconographical-racism/ blogging is not a spectator sport Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:39:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott Yang http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/03/13/iconographical-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-121067 Scott Yang Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:57:37 +0000 http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/03/13/iconographical-racism/#comment-121067 On the other hand, what symbol would you use when posting something about Australia? Opera House? Kangaroo? Footy? Foster, XXXX and VB? Uluru? I guess you really cannot iconise Australia into one single image (at least I can't). So applies to China. I'll say that Mao's image is actually a pretty good attempt :) Although the Chinese character printed underneath the image literally says "Congratulate to Chairman Mao who lives forever", which is quite an irony describing someone who is already dead. On the other hand, what symbol would you use when posting something about Australia? Opera House? Kangaroo? Footy? Foster, XXXX and VB? Uluru?

I guess you really cannot iconise Australia into one single image (at least I can’t). So applies to China.

I’ll say that Mao’s image is actually a pretty good attempt :) Although the Chinese character printed underneath the image literally says “Congratulate to Chairman Mao who lives forever”, which is quite an irony describing someone who is already dead.

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