Are these lyrics politically incorrect by todays standards?

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I have this song playing in my head quite often and the lyrics do make me laugh but I was wondering whether they are un-pc bordering on racist in this day and age?

I wouldn't call this song offensive, but undoubtedly someone will. This is a song about getting along, something that the P.C. Warriors don't do.

Intention and context are far more important than policing words.

This is more controversial but still funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DqvweTYTI0

Lol....yes, very funny indeed.

Yes, it's widely recognised that "chinkee" is rude, but the sentiment is good.

This song also from 1969 uses a words that nobody would allow today but also if you look at the context of the song is not racist.


This Video by Cher from 1973 would be banned today


This song about not being able to fit in and being accepted by both sides has never been more relevant for a lot of us. (in the song she is a "half breed" not accepted by whites and "Native Americans", in our case we are not accepted by "low functioning" autistic organizations and NT's)

Where did you find that song Babybird?

Was alive in 1969,but don't remember ever hearing that song on the radio.

The word "Chinkee" was as un pc in 1969 as it is now.

Interesting specimen to add to my collection of musical oddities. Not sure what to make of it.

Its kinda like Monty Python's "Never Be Rude to an Arab (nor to a n****r, a Jew, or a Wop)". The song contradicts itself, but with the Monty Python song the irony is obviously intentional. With the song in the OP its not clear whether the performers were aware of the contradiction, or not.

How about this for politically incorrect / hilarious?

as i understand it, attempts by native american comedians to come up with a way to parody Europe's "Cherokee" song and video have come up short of producing anything as absurd as the original.

When I was a little kid in the Sixties you still used to hear the phrase "Indian giver"-meaning "someone who gives you gift, and then later asks for it back".

I think that it came from frontier and colonial days when there was cultural misunderstanding between Whites and Indians. The later were more communal about property than whites. If someone admired something you had you were expected to offer it to them. And if you gifted someone with something it was acceptable to ask for it back. Which of course confused and offended the recipient if they were a White settler.

But I haven't heard the term in a LONG time.

Its an anti racist song, but uses rather ...antiquated terms.... for certain ethnic groups like "yellow Chinkees".

So it comes off like that Monty Python song "Never Be Rude to an Arab". As funny. But unlike that Monty Python song it wasn't meant to be funny.

DANG!

Didn't realize that someone necro'd this thread from four years ago. I myself already posted in this thread back then!