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ノルウェー　オスロ大学　Arne Kalland教授による反捕鯨派への非難
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Professor Arne Kalland of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway,
argues that whales are seen as special animals, put into a higher class than other mammals,
such as cows or pigs. They have, he says, been turned into totem animals, symbols
that embody a wider set of values. As we know relatively little about what happens under the sea,
Kalland argues that it has been easy to create myths around whales, leading to the creation of
what he calls the “Super Whale: our relative in the water”.
Noting that anti-whalers often speak of ‘the whale’ in the singular,
Kalland sees the Super Whale as an amalgamation of the best characteristics of all 75-plus species of whale.
It’s large like the blue whale, sings like the humpback, has a large brain like the sperm whale
(although Kalland notes that the sperm whale’s brain is actually small compared to its body size)
and is intelligent and sociable like the bottlenose dolphin.
In addition, Super Whale has human traits ？
"We’ve endowed whales with all the qualities we wish to see in ourselves:
kindness, caring, intelligence, playfulness.”

With this sacred ‘Super Whale’ an embodiment of absolute good, anyone against it can be branded as evil.
So the whalers become barbarians:
Kalland quotes a 1991 Daily Star front cover ？ above an image of a Japanese man eating whale meat,
it reads “Sickest dinner ever served”, while the headline screams “Japs Feast on Whale ？
VIPS tuck into its raw flesh”. Eating whale is seen as tantamount to cannibalism and, as Kalland notes,
the ethnic pejorative ‘Jap’ would usually be reserved for times of war ？
this attack on a totem animal legitimises otherwise taboo language.
This process continues today. Sea Shepherd, the radical anti-whaling organisation routinely refers to the whalers
as ‘murderers’ and worse, while even mainstream anti-whaling rhetoric works hard to maintain a sense of crisis.

Kalland accuses anti-whaling nations of cultural imperialism, of having a “missionary attitude”;
while Hindu’s tolerate the eating of beef by others, anti-whalers condemn and seek to prohibit the eating of whale.
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