----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Mikel Koven wrote (lotsa things, among them): >2. In an interview with director Denys Arcand (a man quite devoted to >keeping Quebecois culture alive), Seguin opens his interview with: "I >have a French name, but I don't speak French. That's pretty funny, eh?" >Arcand replied that it was Seguin's loss that he could not speak French >(presumably spoken in Arcand's perfect English). Apart from the >insulting nature of Seguin's comment, much like saying to Spike Lee, "you >are the first African-American I've met that didn't own a gun," he >actually printed it, complete with Arcand's biting retort (which Seguin >was seemingly unaware of its tone). Excuse me, but I don't get it. I know Arcand & the Quebequois movement, but haven't heard of Seguin. I can't understand what's so insulting with Seguins comment. It's not funny or clever or anything, but insulting? Is it all about the same kind of rethorical hairsplitting that makes people accuse directors of racism when they use the "N"-word? (No, I don't want to mention the film or director in question, 'cause I don't think I could stand another post on that topic.) I just don't understand... Ulf Ulf Dalquist iNEW! Phone: +46 46 2224266 Dept. of Sociology iNEW! Fax: +46 46 2224794 Box 114 221 00 Lund SWEDEN E-mail: [log in to unmask] 'When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.' Dr. Hunter S. Thompson