Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"

Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"

Studying urban legends, the French folklorist Véronique Campion-Vincent posed the question of whether some of the more recent legends preach tolerance. The "elevator incident" or "swallowed ticket" legends display a different attitude to Others from that found in classic xenophob...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:9409578c00f34baea68bf0de34c93e532021-12-02T07:17:08ZTolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"0353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/9409578c00f34baea68bf0de34c93e532016-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/269https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801Studying urban legends, the French folklorist Véronique Campion-Vincent posed the question of whether some of the more recent legends preach tolerance. The "elevator incident" or "swallowed ticket" legends display a different attitude to Others from that found in classic xenophobic urban legends. This different attitude is also to be found in two legends recorded in Serbia, namely, the legend of the Chinese restaurant and the legend of "The Gypsy's Tavern". An analysis of the two legends shows that the ambiguity of "tolerance legends" does not arise from the fact that they speak about a xenophobic environment while at the same time having a denouement that "preaches" tolerance, but rather from the fact that the "preaching" relates to those Others who have gone through a process of acculturation, who have been assimilated and who have accepted the rules of "our" culture. These legends do not preach tolerance towards the Otherness of Others but towards Others who are striving to become or have managed to become "Us".Ivan KovačevićUniversity of BelgradearticleAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 4, Iss 3 (2016)
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Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"
description Studying urban legends, the French folklorist Véronique Campion-Vincent posed the question of whether some of the more recent legends preach tolerance. The "elevator incident" or "swallowed ticket" legends display a different attitude to Others from that found in classic xenophobic urban legends. This different attitude is also to be found in two legends recorded in Serbia, namely, the legend of the Chinese restaurant and the legend of "The Gypsy's Tavern". An analysis of the two legends shows that the ambiguity of "tolerance legends" does not arise from the fact that they speak about a xenophobic environment while at the same time having a denouement that "preaches" tolerance, but rather from the fact that the "preaching" relates to those Others who have gone through a process of acculturation, who have been assimilated and who have accepted the rules of "our" culture. These legends do not preach tolerance towards the Otherness of Others but towards Others who are striving to become or have managed to become "Us".
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title Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"
title_short Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"
title_full Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"
title_fullStr Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"
title_full_unstemmed Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"
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