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Question 1

Use of punctuation (!) where all else is lacking implies the use of a different tone, like an advertisement. Special indigenous artefacts with spiritual origins are being degraded to commercials and on sale as they are considered not valuable. Gives in to the contemporary issue of consumerism where things are consumed at fast paces to be replaced quickly rather than appreciated. Irony as well as aboriginals are killed and assimilated whilst their culture is taken for it’s commercial value - cultural appropriation is a form of colonialism

Answer 1

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Question 2

Connotation to a circus or parade. Renders the object a thing of entertainment for the masses rather than a spiritual object.

Back to consumerism as well, turned into a commodity to be easily consumed and readily available to entertain people

Answer 2

Parades around Paris’ left bank

Sacred dances available out of the yellow pages

Question 3

Metaphor, taking credit for aboriginal culture and commercialising and profiting off of their work whilst they get nothing in return. Colonising their culture now. Appropriation as this was once something they killed them over.

Answer 3

The dealers in Manhattan lay back and vomit - they’re the genius behind dot paintings and ochre hand prints … and across the ass of designer jeans.

Question 4

Reference to how Uluru isn’t on 7 wonders of the world where all of them are based in western civilisation aside from pyramid of Giza which was built by slaves. The site is profited off of as it attracts tourists and foreigners who then have been destroying the site as well,, exploited

Answer 4

If only the alloy-winged angels could pefo better and lift Uluru… missing from that seventh wonder of the world expo

Question 5

Cultural appropriation

Answer 5

Porcelain dolls from soho wanting a part in it so bad as the same scene discards their shells upon the catwalks

Question 6

Racism- selective of what they deem great or not. Rubens is praises for his painting and sell for a lot but don’t acknowledge bora rings?

Answer 6

How the critics neglect the rubenesque roundness of a bora-ring