the most toxic form of discrimination

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[AliceCappelle]

Sorry about the sound problem at the beginning guys. We tried to fix it but clearly we could have done a better job. it’s only problematic during the first minute though :)

[oldishandwoke-ish]

The French and the English tend to call each other arrogant. I think they're both right.

[sujitroy]

Latin teacher here. "Vulgus" or "the mob" has always had a negative connotation, because ancient Roman writers had a very pro-elite, anti-populist bias. Thanks for the video!

[GrayCatbird]

It’s kind of hilariously ironic that many of the greats from art history were absolutely hated by the Academics in their time, accused of lacking respect for the rules, of being vulgar, and all. Like early Victor Hugo, or the Impressionists, just to name a couple. Yet these smug ones just keep repeating the script without taking the hint.

[dude-lojf]

As a brown woman with a college degree in literature, whenever I go on a date with a man who wants to prove he knows more about literature than I do (even tho Im the one with a degree), he'll use the most abstract language to say absolutely nothing of value, or complex or new and it pisses me off. I know this has nothing to do with the video but when you said that thing about using abstract language to say nothing at all I felt so validated hahah

[lihchong]

I bet those guys complaining about aya had no issues with gojira (who sing in english) and celine dion (who's canadian) being in the opening ceremony.

[chelseashurmantine]

I love how the elite fear the working class

[kelvin_darwin]

Pretty spot on. I have also noticed, abstract art from "common" people isn't all that appreciated, validated, or credited until the elite contextualize things to their benefit.

[mariahp]

as a brazilian I find it funny when I see some portuguese people claiming that we speak "brazilian" or "wrong portuguese" or whatever, because this language was forced thru our country by the violence of colonisation

ignorance about colonialism is so pathetic and it clashes with the own idea of eurocentrism, there is no enlightment in not knowing its own past

[Tinfoilpain]

My left ear is very pleased, my right ear is neglected.

[marieerikson]

I found Aya Nakamura's music several years ago, and it helped me learn about how plenty of people actually speak French (because native speakers don't sound like what French textbook would make you believe). I was so happy to see her at the Olympics. She may not be may favourite singer, but she presented to the world that France has a multifaceted culture, even if it often likes to present itself the world as a monolith

Great video, especially for people unfamiliar with French culture and debates

[acmulhern]

It's terrible how much hate she gets. I was not aware because I haven't watched french TV in years. The whole thing of saying that women look like men, especially black women, is such a low attempt to silence a woman and it's disgusting. Mysogy at its finest.

[EclecticPotpourri]

0:10 BABES the ONE ANSWER is ✨Misogynoir✨ African descent and African American descent Femmes who are told their style is not good but when a cosplay of Black American culture and praised.

[woodywoodverchecker]

There was once a marketing agency offering the slogan "Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch." (=We can do anything, except speaking standard German) to the state of Saxony, and they declined. They later offered the same slogan to Baden-Württemberg and they accepted it and used it quite successfully. Baden-Württemberg's accent is seen favorably, as it's an economically strong, wealthy region, but Saxony's Eastern German dialect, while being very distinctive, is seen less favorably and they would have probably been made fun of.

[shinke]

I find this to be very interesting because it's the same way white americans view black americans when they speak in AAVE and how speaking ''proper'' english is the norm because they do not interact with any black people but eventually start using words from it and call it Gen Z slang

[toqa]

Aya is an arabic name means Verse ...that's quite symbolic for a singer, watching from Iraq baghdad and it's cute how u called out the colonial powers in your country .

[kadinelindsayart]

As a Jamaica who moved to Montreal and started dating a French Caribbean person, I was shocked to find out how racism and discriminatory France and the entire Francophone world is. Quebec is the first place I’ve been discriminated against for speaking English…mind u I intentionally live in the historically Anglophone part of the city.

Learning about how Aya is treated in France has been such an eye opener, learning deeper what France did to Haiti, learning how France poisoned Martiniques soil. This is the first time I’m seeing the rest of the world seeing how nasty the Francophone space is. The expected assimilation, the expected silence….France is finally being seen for what it is, and maybe this might give the colonies more support to fight against this disgusting colonial system.

[ericdere]

I’m amazed those boomers did not demand intimate knowledge of Latin, being the root of the French language.

[Grace-zxyx]

I live in the german speaking part of Switzerland and speak "school-french". It‘s so exaggerated that her lyrics is supposedly incomprehensible. I understad quite a lot but am aware that I don‘t understand the french slang words. which, guess what, is not unique to the french music scene. A lot of german rappers also use slang that I have to google. They get the same accusations, which are passive aggressive due to their migration backgrounds. I think rap, hip hop, r&b are genres that are looked down a lot even though it takes intelligence to be able to freestyle and rap.

[DoodleDabble]

I’m a white foreigner that writes music in French. Even as a white person, I have to surveille my grammar and word choice so I don’t get demoted to second-class citizen. But this year at the songwriters’ conference I usually go to, there was a sudden humongous uptake in xenophobic rhetoric, against Africans, foreigners trying to write in French, and even other francophone european countries. One lady from Africa even said that she didn’t want to see African Francophones on the panel of presenters because they need “real French speakers”. Parisian French supremacy and suppression seems to have come out of the shadows since the election (at least in the circles I run in - found out many of these colleagues supported the RN.)