Cultural_roles Banana

1 cultural roles

1.1 arts
1.2 religion , popular beliefs
1.3 racist symbol
1.4 unicode

cultural roles








arts

the song yes! have no bananas written frank silver , irving cohn , released in 1923; many decades, best-selling sheet music in history. since song has been rerecorded several times , has been particularly popular during banana shortages.
a person slipping on banana peel has been staple of physical comedy generations. american comedy recording 1910 features popular character of time, uncle josh , claiming describe own such incident:

now don t think of man throws banana peelin on sidewalk, , don t think of banana peel throws man on sidewalk neither ... foot hit bananer peelin , went in air, , come down ker-plunk, jist pickin myself little boy come runnin across street ... says, oh mister, won t please agin? little brother didn t see it.

the poet bashō named after japanese word banana plant. bashō planted in garden grateful student became source of inspiration poetry, symbol of life , home.
the cover artwork debut album of velvet underground features banana made andy warhol. on original vinyl lp version, design allowed listener peel banana find pink, peeled phallic banana on inside.

religion , popular beliefs

nang tani, female ghost of thai folklore haunts banana plants

in burma, bunches of green bananas surrounding green coconut in tray form important part of traditional offerings buddha , nats.

in important festivals , occasions of hindus, serving of bananas plays prominent part. traditionally in tamil marriages, banana plants tied on both sides of entrance of houses bless newlyweds useful each other. banana 1 of 3 fruits significance, others being mango , jack fruit.

in thailand, believed type of banana plants may inhabited spirit, nang tani, type of ghost related trees , similar plants manifests young woman. people tie length of colored satin cloth around pseudostem of banana plants.

in malay folklore, ghost known pontianak associated banana plants (pokok pisang), , spirit said reside in them during day.

racist symbol

there long racist history of describing people of african descent being more monkeys humans, , due assumption in popular culture monkeys bananas, bananas have been used in symbolic acts of hate speech. in april 2014, during match @ villarreal s stadium, el madrigal, dani alves targeted villareal supporter david campaya lleo, threw banana @ him. alves picked banana, peeled , took bite, , meme went viral on social media in support of him. racist taunts ongoing problem in football. bananas hung nooses around campus of american university in may 2017 after student body elected first black woman student government president.

unicode

the unicode standard includes emoji character u+1f34c 🍌 banana (html 🍌).