This Italian "newspaper" wanted to depict the "indian heritage" of an US candidate. Chennai, Cherokee, the same.
Can you notice that it's a bit leaning to the right?
Europeans: Americans are so obsessed with race
Also Europeans:
This has almost nothing to do with race (or at least with hers), it's just a dumb analogy to play with the title in a western movie fashion. "Hunting the white man" refers to the search for a white vice-president that would play well with "wasp" population.
Isn't it on that red planet near Solo?
This joke might not be good but I'm proud of it's layers
Europeans mistaking Americans for Indians for centuries.
Specifically Italians, at that.
Classic Italian mistake.
Italian here, they probably did it on purpose so that people would repost it and they succeeded.
Fucking Italians man...
I prefer Italian women, but you know ... when on a road leading to Rome (but walking in the opposite direction for obvious reasons), one has to keep an open mind.
Well, at least it's casual racism, not professional racism.
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Oh, it's a newspaper, so a bit professional I guess, but like they didn't use their "best" racists.
/s
Also who are the white folk they are referring to?
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The other dude in the race is clearly orange (of some rapey citrus heritage). And the "catching" part, well, statistically speaking as DA she prob didn't do that much of that color either.
Everything around this is multilevel horribly resist, and yet the reality is several parallel universes ahead.
The "hunt" for the white man refers to her search for a white guy as a vice-president that can appeal to the "wasp" population. It's a reference to western movies. The article is fully on her search for a vice-president and the "real" motivations for her choice.
Yes, thx, I know, along with other inaccuracies it's for the art of shit & giggles.
As a European I will admit I have no idea what's "wrong" with the picture. Other than it just looking like a mouthpiece for people instead of actually reporting things
Someone, somewhere has evidently misinterpreted the fact that US presidential candidate Kamala Harris (pictured center) is of Indian ancestry - as in her family is from the country in south Asia - and instead photoshopped her into the stereotypical Native American "Indian" aesthetic. Why they have chosen to do this eludes me.
Ohh! As a European I do know the difference between those two types. It just didn't click that they got it wrong, I thought they had the feathers wrong (like part of the wrong native American tribe or something)
because they don't actually know WHAT Indian she is, didn't bother to look into it, and assumed it to be the American one
No it's not that. Another comment explains it above, and it has to do with Western movies. Il tempo is usually just recommended to clean windows, but it's not what you (or OP) suggests.
Everything about this image is completely messed up
She's not Native American. Adding random head pieces to Native Americans is reductive and historically used to discount their opinion.
WTF?
You don't even need to guess it based on whatever USA they posted at the centre. Just look at Giorgia Merdoni at the left.
Giorgia Merdoni
Nice one
English can be confusing
Is that Elizabeth Warren?
Man you know saying that shit is inflammatory but I still don't get why people get butthurt over somebody mentioning it than Liz doing it.
Telling about US political climate.
You're offended that a foreign xenophobic tabloid did not accurately depict her indian heritage in a goddamn caricature? Come on man, live and let live.
her indian heritage
You're right at the cusp of understanding.
No, they aren't.
American in Italy here! I am not justifying this, just explaining it from an Italian perspective. First, the paper is not mixing up her Indian heritage here with Native American. They took the idea that she is seeking a white male VP running mate and wrote "hunting for a white man", which conjured up a "funny" homage to native Americans in spaghetti westerns, while giving a nod and a wink to the racism inherent in making the VP pick race-based. Second, this paper is a sensationalist rag sold in grocery store checkout lanes, with no expectation for the stories to be good, or free of any number of unsavory isms.
I'm not sure how it is in Italy, but a lot of the older Italians I know absolutely love old westerns (of.... Varying quality)
Spaghetti westerns are called that because they originate from Italy.
Westerns are generally quite liked by the older generation. Leone's masterpieces are definitely cult movies that most people have watched.
ah, that explains it.
Yes, this about covers it (correctly).
And it is pointing at racism (it's no secret the "had" to get a white male of certain age).
Also I think the Indian part was used just because of that additional funny coincidence. It's not not funny, but far from good. ... tho thinking about it now - using the same joke by having Adolfy depicted as Crocodile Dundee, while still not lol funny, does seem kinda funny.