She receives backlash after denouncing her colleague's racism | "The Turk Shop" - by Bahar Pars

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In a creative office in Stockholm, Cecilia tells an anecdote during a break and uses a racial slur. Asal, the new girl, questions her use of words, and Cecilia is very offended. The Turk Shop is a comedy about structural racism at work, and the second film in a trilogy on the same theme from Pars.
This short film was nominated at the following festivals:
-Göteborg International Film Festival - Swedish Shorts Competition - Startsladden, 2017
-Helsinki International Film Festival, 2017
-Sundance Film Festival, 2018
-Omaha Film Festival, 2018
-Pow Film Fest, 2018
-Nashville Film Festival, 2018
-Oslo Independent Film Festival, 2018
-Art Film Fest International Film Festival, 2018
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CAST & CREW
Original title: Turkkiosken (The Turk Shop)
Direction: Bahar Pars
Production: [sic] Film
Screenplay: Martin Monk
Editing: Utkan Can Büyükada
Cinematography: Shazi Özdemir
Sound: Claes Lundberg
With: Maral Nasiri, Fanni Metelius, Sanna Sundqvist, Eric Stern, Jonas Malmsjö, Jens Ohlin
Year: 2019

[@rlnstn9300]

I don’t get it

[@parvanehsamadani537]

Me too!

[@henrimatisse7481]

Let me explain: the protagonist is working in white Swedish entitled culture the folks are very used to; their history dictates it. Now there are Turkish people who do tasks and have shops Swedes don't want to run. The Danes are very similar but worse in their racism. Both feel threatened but they are at the top. Sort of like white American males. Hence all the gun violence. They must keep everyone else at a disadvantage

[@param888]

i think the complexity has not been presented accurately. the complexity is not what happened, the real complexity begins when she approach to talk to her, at this point of time if one party skips the communication, that's racism /discrimination/ problem in such environment and mostly this is what happens all the time. The host nationality always full of ego that every immigrant appears a rebel or a slave, e.g. give them chance, job and visa and they are opposing us, they hold anti thoughts against us and so on. address ego at first place. atleast here HR did a role, it was pathetic the way he talked but in real situation even that doesn't happen. here it was a Swedish office, i guess but make it one more time with context of German offices. 😂😂😂 i remember a situation, i kept a flag at my desk of my nationality in host European country, and no body likes it, they don't even thought why I place it, it had two flag out of which one flag I wanted to replace with host country flag, but before I could do so. it was already became issue and grow out of control. 😂😂😂

[@BiharyGabor]

In fact, this is exactly what Eastern Europeans see as woke horror. I myself have a lot of experience in European politics, I am definitely anti-racist, and as a translator who also deals with localization, I have some sense of the problems of language use. But honestly, I have no idea what the hell this story is about. Is there a particular Swedish cultural problem with the term "Turkkiosk"? Or is it really that the word "Turk" cannot be used in any idiom at all? What the hell is "structural racism" here? 😲

[@henrimatisse7481]

Let me explain: the protagonist is working in white Swedish entitled culture the folks are very used to; their history dictates it. Now there are Turkish people who do tasks and have shops Swedes don't want to run. The Danes are very similar but worse in their racism. Both feel threatened but they are at the top. Sort of like white American males. Hence all the gun violence. They must keep everyone else at a disadvantage

[@BiharyGabor]

@@henrimatisse7481 I cannot see the explanation here. Some buzz words put together but no real meaning. Sorry.

[@henrimatisse7481]

Let me explain: the protagonist is working in white Swedish entitled culture the folks are very used to; their history dictates it. Now there are Turkish people who do tasks and have shops Swedes don't want to run. The Danes are very similar but worse in their racism. Both feel threatened but they are at the top. Sort of like white American males. Hence all the gun violence. They must keep everyone else at a disadvantage

[@iwolfe6109]

r.s.1281 Wrong ! Give it some thought before seeking to display your ignorance.

[@r.s.1281]

Welcome to woke Sweden. In the description of the film it says "Asal, the new girl questions [a colleague's] use of words"... No she doesn't. She tells her colleague not to use a word that she finds offensive. There is a difference. Questioning shows curiosity and explaining how is can be hurtful is absolutely fair. However, telling others what not to do and say, implying that they are racists if they do, is a woke supressing mechanism. Nowadays everything can be considered racism then you have a victim mentality. I am not questioning that structural racism exists. I just don't think this is a good representation of it.