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‘Derogatory’: Children’s show Bluey tweaks episodes after complaint – Sydney Morning Herald
The ABC says neither it nor the show’s producers were aware of the term’s racial connotations prior to broadcast.
“At that time you had movies like Tarzan and King Kong,” Ms Morgan said. “A lot of the actors from traditional cultures are represented extremely tribally, running around with spears and this sort of unintelligible language saying, ‘ooga booga’.
“It’s considered extremely derogatory. We see it in reference to Polynesian cultures, Indigenous Australians, Moari. There was a videogame in 2001 called Ooga Booga and the character was a volcano goddess. Then there was a movie in 2013 called Ooga Boog…
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