Type of minority unimportant to the thrust of this post
Dec 9, 2020 2:02:43 GMT
Post by Last Rock Hope on Dec 9, 2020 2:02:43 GMT
Rosskolnikov:
Curious for any opinions. Let's take, hypothetically, a high school choir concert, given outside due to COVID restrictions and need to keep families together but apart from one another. And with the singers masked so volume, even with some amplification was a bit wanting. Food was prepared for people to eat at self-brought tables set up within marked off reserved space. Given all that, what do you think about:
1) Parents letting some younger children come but be on phones almost the entire time, including some chatting away (not in a whisper) about whatever they were doing on the phones. Mom sitting right next to them. Their volume slightly higher than that of a choir.
2) A different Mom and daughter, in the very back row, but talking about some unrelated thing (not, please pass the spaghetti) and at more or less full conversational volume. At time, soloist is singing (so it's quieter) and doing a rather nice rendition of Joni Mitchell's "River." Someone in front of them, turns around and gently asks them to please be quiet. After a few seconds, they do.
3) In a subsequent song, same group in the back starts up again. Volume is now pretty significantly higher than that of the choir, and the subject of the conversation appears to be something about a friend and his/her house. Person in front turns around again but now motions to be quiet (palm facing ground and pushing "down.") They keep talking. Person turns around again. Father (with the two) says, out loud and louder, "why don't you talk to me like a man? You know how we are." Father is covered with a face mask and winter hat so not clear who "we" is, but it becomes clear by accent he's a minority that is "type unimportant to the thrust of this post" and is a bit miffed that "white guy" in front of him is asking for quiet. Is that OK of him?
(I realize #3 is a bit incendiary, but it's not so much intended to be that way as it is to highlight that "Dad" seemed to want to take refuge is some mythical alternate cultural norm). Is that OK of him? Should it be? Should there be an expectation of a more silent observation in this day and age, or is that obsolete?
1) Parents letting some younger children come but be on phones almost the entire time, including some chatting away (not in a whisper) about whatever they were doing on the phones. Mom sitting right next to them. Their volume slightly higher than that of a choir.
2) A different Mom and daughter, in the very back row, but talking about some unrelated thing (not, please pass the spaghetti) and at more or less full conversational volume. At time, soloist is singing (so it's quieter) and doing a rather nice rendition of Joni Mitchell's "River." Someone in front of them, turns around and gently asks them to please be quiet. After a few seconds, they do.
3) In a subsequent song, same group in the back starts up again. Volume is now pretty significantly higher than that of the choir, and the subject of the conversation appears to be something about a friend and his/her house. Person in front turns around again but now motions to be quiet (palm facing ground and pushing "down.") They keep talking. Person turns around again. Father (with the two) says, out loud and louder, "why don't you talk to me like a man? You know how we are." Father is covered with a face mask and winter hat so not clear who "we" is, but it becomes clear by accent he's a minority that is "type unimportant to the thrust of this post" and is a bit miffed that "white guy" in front of him is asking for quiet. Is that OK of him?
(I realize #3 is a bit incendiary, but it's not so much intended to be that way as it is to highlight that "Dad" seemed to want to take refuge is some mythical alternate cultural norm). Is that OK of him? Should it be? Should there be an expectation of a more silent observation in this day and age, or is that obsolete?