<story><title>How to Silence Vuvuzela Horns in World Cup Broadcasts</title><url>http://lifehacker.com/5564085/how-to-silence-vuvuzela-horns-with-an-eq-filter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helium</author><text>More like: &quot;How Tech-Savvy Westerners found a way to satisfy their complete cultural ignorance and inability to accept or understand cultures other than their own&quot;</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>There&apos;s a cultural studies paper for anyone who wants it in software programmers versus throngs of Africans with 5 cent plastic noisemakers.  &quot;Subjugation By Software: How Tech-Savvy Westerners Wrote Africans Out Of The World Cup In Real Time&quot; would pick up plenty of citations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomhoward</author><text>Speaking of &quot;complete cultural ignorance&quot;, you might want to  do a little research into South Africa&apos;s long, splendid history of singing at public events, which at the football at least, the vuvuzela has largely destroyed.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to Silence Vuvuzela Horns in World Cup Broadcasts</title><url>http://lifehacker.com/5564085/how-to-silence-vuvuzela-horns-with-an-eq-filter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helium</author><text>More like: &quot;How Tech-Savvy Westerners found a way to satisfy their complete cultural ignorance and inability to accept or understand cultures other than their own&quot;</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>There&apos;s a cultural studies paper for anyone who wants it in software programmers versus throngs of Africans with 5 cent plastic noisemakers.  &quot;Subjugation By Software: How Tech-Savvy Westerners Wrote Africans Out Of The World Cup In Real Time&quot; would pick up plenty of citations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dantheman</author><text>And of course the follow up -- how long does something need to exist before cultural relativism kicks in.  20 years?&lt;p&gt;Originally made out of tin, the vuvuzela became popular in South Africa in the 1990s.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela#Use_outside_football_games&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela#Use_outside_football_g...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>