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Is it time for ‘Asterix’ to retire the 'Roman' salute?

JL;DR SUMMARY PJ Grisar explores the continued use of the Roman salute in the new Netflix series "Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight," questioning its relevance and potential harm given its association with the Nazis rather than ancient Rome. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustWorld War IiCultural RepresentationNetflixNazismJewish CreatorsRoman SaluteAsterixFrench Comics

Places mentioned

Armorica, Brittany, France
"Asterix the Gaul, the wing-helmeted hero of Armorica, has always lived in a time both before the modern world and in the messy middle of it."
France
"Asterix was created in 1959 by the French-Jewish writer Ren Goscinny (who grew up in Argentina) and the Italian French artist Albert Uderzo."
Buenos Aires, Argentina
"In Buenos Aires, Goscinnys father worked for the Jewish Colonization Association, which helped settle Jewish refugees fleeing persecution."
United States
"But if the execrable American dub of the 1989 cartoon of Asterix and the Big Fight is any indication, youths here in the U.S. need a bit more hand-holding, not just for understanding the European tribal dynamics in 50 B.C.E., but to know that a Hitler salute is not Roman and not to be mimicked."

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