Think Bigg

My friend Amy is trying to educate me on a little bit of Belfast history before I head over there in a couple of weeks. Lesson #1 is this YouTube cartoon called “Captain Planet Saves Belfast.”

The synopsis, according to its creator:

“Captain Planet and his buddies are on hand to save Belfast from a nuke.”

Here’s Amy’s take:

if you’re gonna post it on thinkbigg please mention that it’s a GROSS simplification and the accents are atrocious- not to mention that i’ve NEVER seen an irishman or ulsterman that big!!! the paramilitary guys are all short stocky shaved headed guys :o) HA! and they never go by their real names, they have nicknames like spud, mad-dog, macca. and, if the writers really wanted to use ‘typical’ northern irish names they’d have used Gerry for a catholic and Billy for a prod.

Is there a lesson? Perhaps just that human beings seize on incredibly subtle and often stupid ways to differentiate ourselves, and then to hate what we don’t understand.

If only that lesson were just for Northern Ireland.

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