Wednesday, March 18, 2015

America's image abroad

Saw this via Drudge today:


In the background are the words "El Cascanueces," i.e., "The Nutcracker" ("le Casse-noix" in French). The article about Spain's spring Fallas festival in Valencia (pronounce fallas as "fah-yahss," not "phallus"), which apparently comes right before bullfighting season, is here. Obama and Putin are but one tableau among hundreds at the festival.

The displays are satirical, and supposedly all in good fun. But if satire, like stereotypes, contains a grain of truth in it, then America's image abroad is that of an emasculated weakling, lightly ballet-kicking (or foot-tickling?) the privates of Mother Russia. And from the look on Putin's face, there's no place he'd rather be.


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1 comment:

  1. John from DaejeonMarch 19, 2015 at 12:26:00 PM GMT+9

    You always seem to enjoy learning new vocabulary words. Well, they technically aren't all that new.

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