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8 Comments:
Looks and sounds like an Onion parody. Was that newsman on the street stumping for political office in his shirtsleeves? But this is America. It's not like a drone 'expectedly' dropping in on a wedding party.
Ted, this isn't so strange. Have you ever spent time in Mexico?
It might seem odd to you, but Latin cultures deal with death in ways that might seem incomprehensible to Anglo-Saxons who are pressed into internalizing their grief and withdrawing from their community.
Who are we to judge this woman?
I'm with Grouchy... this is just a foreign way of dealing with the issue but she doesn't seem opportunistic. She's not charging and it's not clear she even wanted media attention.
Grouchy is right. The Day of the Dead is a reality in Latin cultures. Watching a bunch of racist Anglos - including TV talking heads (including the Latina quisling), police scum, and Ted - make fun of another culture is disheartening if expected. Anyone who takes a moment to see how European cultures memorialize the dead would see the moral obscenity of casting the first stone. America isn't all blancolandia. And it's strange that Ted - of all people, having witnessed death in Afghanistan's very different culture(s) - would walk hand-in-hand with corpmedia to trivialize a mother's understanding of her sons' death.
If she was charging money for admission I would agree but this does seem like some Day of the Dead(not the movie) type celebration for a woman that latched on to the closest thing to that in America which would be America. It is sad and I have to admit a little odd, but so was my first wake.
Grouchy,
Have you ever been to a haunted house? They're loud, dark, and disorienting. Its a lark when you know there is no real danger. (Its even better if you go with a pretty, easily frightened girl, but that's beside the point.) In this case, though, two children died in the very same house because it was too loud, dark, and disorienting for them to escape a fire.
Why would someone want to re-live that? We're not talking about celebrating life, or even laughing at death, which are more in the actual spirit of the Latin American grieving process. We're talking about someone who is fixated on the pain and suffering of her loved ones. Its understandable, but its not healthy. Don't let the campy dressing of a haunted house fool you.
I feel really bad for this lady.
I can't wait for the market to show us whether this was an ethical or tasteful step to take.
Ditto Marion: In a capitalist society, everything is open to commercialization. We should all admire this woman's entrepreneurial spirit!
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