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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-07-09 06:59 pm

[ SECRET POST #4205 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4205 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Taste of the Country on Netflix]


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03.
[The Power of One]


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04.
[Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey]


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05.
[Slightly Damned]


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[Phryne and Jack, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]


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07.
[Russell Howard and Jon Richardson
Aisling Bea and Catherine Ryan
Dara O'Brian and Ed Byrne
Greg Davies and Roisin Conaty
Robert Webb and David Mitchell
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry
Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding
Jonathan Ross and Jimmy Carr]









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(Anonymous) 2018-07-09 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Apartheid was still in action in S.A. when The Power of One was first published. The book was instrumental in drawing further negative attention to the oppressive regime.
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[personal profile] philstar22 2018-07-10 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
And? This comment is very true, but I'm not sure how it is an answer to the secret.

(Anonymous) 2018-07-10 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
gives cultural context. op is probably coming from american perspective, when applied to south africa's race issues paints a different picture.

(Anonymous) 2018-07-10 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
DA

Not an answer, but good context.

(Anonymous) 2018-07-10 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
It's part of a whole genre of books and movies with a white character used to draw attention to black South Africans and apartheid. So, for the time it was published, it was politically forward; now it's (thankfully) a historical piece.

(Anonymous) 2018-07-10 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
AYRT

The film was released in 1992. Apartheid was banned in 1994. So, my comment is applicable to the film as well.

I protested Apartheid in the states. (My university had holdings in South Africa at the time. The rallying cry was divestment.) So, it struck me OP might be unaware of the cultural context.