Tahir Bilgic,one of the creators of Channel Nine’s recent show Here advance the Habibs, explains how a program written by a ‘vanilla milkshake writing team’ can be culturally sensitive and funny at the same time. And Monica Tan questions her own racial identity after realising she doesn’t fit the stereotype of an Australian-born Chinese personHere advance the Habibs tells the story of a family of Middle Eastern descent who win a lottery and use the money to breeze to Vaucluse, and a wealthy,largely white neighbourhood in Sydney.
As soon as a trailer for the show was released, a social media backlash erupted. Petitions acquire called for it to be banned for being racist, and while others want it suppressed because it is ‘pro-Islam’. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com