Africans
are bit dumb, Arabs sit on flying carpets, Turks smoke cigars, are some
of the reasons for the library to remove the books off the shelves.
Popular comic book series Tintin has been taken off the shelves of a Stockholm library because the staff thought the comics were “racist” and portrays many cultures as “Afro-Phobic”, a newspaper reported.
“The image the Tintin books give of Africans is Afro-phobic, for
example. Africans are a bit dumb, while Arabs sit on flying carpets and
Turks smoke water pipes,” explained Behrang Miri, who is in charge of
the youth department in the library, to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper
(DN).
Miri has argued that when children read Tintin, they don’t’ stop to consider the stereotypical characters featured within the pages, according The Swedish Local Newspaper.
“Children don’t read the fine print; they just get into the story immediately. The biased picture is stigmatizing. Tintin provides a caricature with a colonial perspective. Young children absorb the information uncritically,” he told DN.
Popular comic book series Tintin has been taken off the shelves of a Stockholm library because the staff thought the comics were “racist” and portrays many cultures as “Afro-Phobic”, a newspaper reported.
Miri has argued that when children read Tintin, they don’t’ stop to consider the stereotypical characters featured within the pages, according The Swedish Local Newspaper.
“Children don’t read the fine print; they just get into the story immediately. The biased picture is stigmatizing. Tintin provides a caricature with a colonial perspective. Young children absorb the information uncritically,” he told DN.
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