The "statue" of Bruce Lee in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

[KaloMatt]

Originally Posted by Marulus

What? The statue of the vandalization thereof?

No, this was my failed sample of humor:

Originally Posted by Kalomatt

How can you build a bronze statue in country with
50.000 gypsies and have it intact?

Mostar is obviously in age of construction of freaky buildings/statues;
Cross on "mostarsko brdo", Islamic mosque with shopping centre, Kunf-fu master ,..

Welcome to Mostar:

[KaloMatt]

I can't believe it:

Postavljen spomenik Rokiju Balboi | Glas javnosti

[Marcus Marulus]

Originally Posted by KaloMatt

I can't believe it:

Postavljen spomenik Rokiju Balboi | Glas javnosti

We had it already on Stirpes:

Balkans’ Idolatry Delights Movie Fans and Pigeons

I like especially the part about pigeons....

[KaloMatt]

“After World War II, hundreds of displaced people arrived here with their families and one piece of luggage, and they needed to be strong to survive just like Tarzan,”

[Gavril]

Originally Posted by Marulus

As I can see, a fierce battle is being waged between the mediocre and the extremely repulsive.

As usual.

[Pirate]

Originally Posted by KaloMatt

What's wrong with the cross?

[ares]

One word: horrible.

Another one: pathetic.

No reflection on Bruce Lee who I am sure was one of the best martial artists the world has ever seen, but this?

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by KaloMatt

“After World War II, hundreds of displaced people arrived here with their families and one piece of luggage, and they needed to be strong to survive just like Tarzan,”

Stuppidest statement ever. They should just say "Međa is a shitty little village where nothing historical happens and where there is nothing. So in order to get some attention we are building a statue to an actor born here who played Tarzan."

Or, were only doing this for attention (the rocky case): Dozens of television crews from as far away as Japan have descended on the town.

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by KaloMatt

I can't believe it:

Postavljen spomenik Rokiju Balboi | Glas javnosti

Ako ikad procem kroz ŽITIŠTE jaču lično sružiti taj spomenik.

[Crvena zvezda]

I found this parts funny from the Balkans’ Idolatry Delights Movie Fans and Pigeons article:

Both Croats and Muslims complained that the likeness of Mr. Lee, a martial arts icon, was a provocation because he was pointed at them in an aggressive martial pose. This prompted his creators to rotate the statue in a neutral direction.

^ It's a statue.

These proposals for statues in the Balkans are just as bad as the one the radicals made in Novi Sad and Beograd of building a statue of Saddam.

[Crvena zvezda]

In addition to a proposed Saddam statue in Serbia, Tarzan, Rocky and Bruce Lee as mentioned already. In Sarajevo a statue of a metal soup can was unveiled a few years ago was revealed and in Split there was of Orson Welles.

^ The Orson Welles one actually made sense because:
1. The statue is at a movie theater.
2. It was placed on public property.
3. Orson Welles spent time in his later years in Croatia.

Orson Welles becomes "Citizen of Split" (SETimes.com)

The only thing bad about the Orson Welles statue is that they made it of when he became ugly, old and fat.

Lee taught martial art at a time when racism kept Chinese masters from teaching it to people of other cultures (especially because of a bitter history of Western oppression to Chinese), a lot of these kung fu masters resented him teaching Westerners but he still looked past racial lines and taught without backing down on his Chinese heritage.

Yes, he was an actor, but also a philosopher who created his own style of kung fu by blending elements from both East and West. Yes, his movies are violent, but they show normal people standing up against oppression without resorting to guns and senseless killing like the movies we accept today. Furthermore, he represented his people to the world as real people at a time when many viewed foreigners with negative stereotypes because of limited exposure.

I don't see why you should be so repulsed that someone so influential for furthering intercultural understanding should be able to represent cultural unity.