Quite Similar View
Reading the Tuesday View in The Courier-Mail was a little bit intriguing and remainded me of my writing in the last second post. The title was Is it funny to be cruel? by Rosemary Sorensen. She wrote that laughing at ourselves had been an Australian characteristic which she was overly proud of. It most likely doesnot happend to my people in my culture. They tend to laugh at others rather than to themselves. It’s kind of coward ways of thinking.
To some extent, being funny is the best trick to get more and more friends we like. It is very acceptable and even likable for those who has a great sense of humor but the sense of humor is not about laughing others by putting down people among the people involved in the conversation. The more positive way is playing funny without humiliating. This is the pathetic way most people like to laugh at. But in her writing was about laughing at the funniest home video in Australia. This issue was becoming her concern because it day by day it can be acceptable and no longer be considered as a bad behaviour.
This type of behaviour is nourshing in my culture which is very sadly filling the conversation when the topic is absent. People would never complain about this bad bahaviour and if it happens to be a complain they say "it’s just a joke". "You’re geek and do not have a sense of humour" phrase is the best excuse for them to fightback when the jokes even really worst. Phatethicly, this excuse will be in the major part of the society then consequently those who is quite critical which is in a minor part would feel to be blamed as an indifferent person and easily irritated. And those who are not consistent enough in reconstructing the culture will fade away and finally follow the fade and join the bad crowd. So who is right and who is wrong? But I’m not sure it can be categorised as right or wrong.
I myself sometimes complaining though sometimes accidentally doing that kind of bad behaviour and in the end I think it over to regret. But regreting doesn’t change anything even if we talk about it, some refraining and helpless responds are shouted everywhere. Once I asked my friend whom I think she agreed with this idea but she was helpless as well and she find that this is our culture and we can not change it. How can we change a bad and stupid culture?
