In a move that reminds us of the Victorian attitude to covering nude statues and even table legs, the Federal Communications Commission in the US* is investigating complaints from American viewers of the Olympics in Greece featured statues that featured nudity.
Among these statues were Ancient Greek figures such as Satyr and Kouros - all perfectly naked (to us at PSFK)
The Games chief Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki reacted by telling the LA Times,
"As Americans are surely aware, there is great hostility in the world today to cultural dominance in which a single values system created elsewhere diminishes and degrades local cultures."
* The US is a country known for its vast smut peddling empires.
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This is the first I have heard of the complaints. As an American and a student of anthropology I think this is really sad. I hope the people of the world do not think we are all that juvenile. I can’t believe our system even entertains complaints like this.
January 22nd, 2005 at 8:57 am