This intent worked. Despite the visual representation of the 20s and 30s second generation South Asian demographic on screen, the show reached a predominantly white audience: viewing figures settled at 3. That television does not have a uniform or official effect it can inflict on its audiences, but is instead the site of negotiation with its viewers, has long been discussed by theorists like George Gerbner and Stuart Hall Perhaps the most telling conclusion this study found was that one popular site of comedy for white respondents was the Indian accents used in its portrayals Balirano and Corduas , p.
Unsurprisingly, this accent was not found comedic by British-Asian respondents. Old Britain and its recent immigrants are lucky. When both laugh at each other, both like each other better for doing so.
In many ways it seems unfair to judge Goodness Gracious Me for attempting to have access to the same breadth of self-reflective satire as the traditionally self-deprecating white British comedy tradition, despite the ethnocentric discourse its representations entered into.
If Goodness Gracious Me was truly successful in drawing attention to British-Asians as multiply complex subjects, this sustained reproduction of flat tropes should be much less necessary; it should be possible to have an Asian television host without an entire Asian family of caricatures surrounding him.
It seems rather than construct multiplicities that would champion Asian culture while integrating with white Britain, Goodness Gracious Me reinforced many of the stereotypes that remain in place today. Many paint a complex image that is reflected without judgement, forming a rare portrait of British-Asianness free from approval or disdain: The first-generation mothers who compete to hyperbolize the often very non-traditional successes of their sons in order to realize their own successes as immigrants; the teenage girls whose crass behavior challenges perceptions of Asian women as meek and demure; and the elderly Punjabi woman whose refusal to fully integrate seems a point of exhaustingly self-conscious pride.
Whatever the intent, the sketches contribute to negative discourses around Asian men taking and corrupting white women. Conclusion As a white Briton, this study was a difficult undertaking.
It is certainly not my place to dictate or judge the self-representation of British-Asian comedians, especially knowing the cultural barriers established to determine the nature of the content, and the struggles minorities face in seeking representation.
It is also noteworthy that this broad non-Asian audience was a viewership the show actively courted. It is telling, for example, that critiques of the show soften the closer one travels back toward its broadcast date period. Nevertheless, it does not absolve the show from criticism, and this paper has discussed the ways in which sketches seemingly intentionally reproduce problematic discourses, or else can be decoded in such a way that this becomes the case.
While this was a seminal television moment for a historically oppressed group, we must consider these criticisms when considering its contribution to ethnic uplift in the United Kingdom, especially because the ethnic representations it championed have remained so static for the past 15 years. The Rhetoric of Multiculturalism. Balirano, G. Detecting semiotically-expressed humor in diasporic TV productions.
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