I can understand to an extent why Dr. Harris would be so insulted by his daughter embracing that ethnic stereotype in an interview. From talking to this one guy at work who came from the region (maybe a generation younger than Harris), the whole politics of respectability were very important to those generations that came of age in a post colonial world.
The use of that stereotype for w cheap joke certainly demonstrates his daughter’s profound lack of understanding of that perspective and the context from where it developed.
I can understand to an extent why Dr. Harris would be so insulted by his daughter embracing that ethnic stereotype in an interview. From talking to this one guy at work who came from the region (maybe a generation younger than Harris), the whole politics of respectability were very important to those generations that came of age in a post colonial world.
The use of that stereotype for w cheap joke certainly demonstrates his daughter’s profound lack of understanding of that perspective and the context from where it developed.
So you could say that she behaved as if she fell out of a coconut tree?
Well, she did learn that from her mother, so it checks out.