basically, this involves a generalization often made about African Americans, that they all like to eat fried chicken (gefrituurde kip). So the 'zwarte' here is being ironic and is perhaps saying that he's going to go do what the whites feel he does best, and that is frying chicken. It's a strange 'joke' but this is basically the background behind it.

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in answer to Evert\'s question, \'back\' refers to a kitchen in all likelihood


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here are some hits demonstrating this stereotype (painful to have to look up, but it shows you what I\'m talking about):
... food-related customs anyway? Of course not all blacks eat fried chicken,
greens and chitlins, but so what? There are plenty of Irish ...
www.lowbrowlowdown.com/02_2.15.shtml - 26k
... to it. Restitution comes in all forms, including the good sense not
to make cracks about blacks and fried chicken. Woods accepted ...
www.s-t.com/daily/04-97/04-27-97/b01sp055.htm - 7k
... Once again, here\' another case of Blacks getting special ... side resident who says
she got tired of driving to Black neighborhoods for Kentucky Fried Chicken. ...
www.beansouptimes.com/generic.html?pid=45 - 12k
... The Germans had kraut & wursts; the > French did wine-tastings; the Greeks had
lamb & loukamathes; and the > blacks had fried chicken, watermelon, collard ...
lists.travellerrpg.com/pipermail/ tml/2002-December/173650.html - 4k

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Sorry, ik dacht alleen dat de vraag was wat de betekenis was van de grap - ik had het niet vertaald. Je ZOU het eventueel kunnen vertalen in het NL met wat over Surinamers of zoiets zoals zo (te?) vaak gedaan wordt op TV en in films - ik vind het allemaal een beetje gevoelig. Iets over roti of zo?

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in response to Chris\' comment: if this IS for subtitling purposes(not that I have any experience), I can imagine any \'translation\' of an American cultural slur into one Dutch would/could relate to will only appear silly if the image doesn\'t fit the text - hopefully you understand what I\'m trying to say!

I don't see the problem with 'go back'. It's just a standard way of breaking off a conversation that you're not interested in persuing, for which one Dutch equivalent immediately springs to mind:

-> 'als je het niet erg vindt, ga ik verder met [racial stereotype activity]'.

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One way you could decide to translate this is to drop the specific racial reference of \'frying chicken\' (which probably only an American audience would understand anyway) and change it for another very menial or humbling activity. While it might not be a 100% true translation, it does fit the image and situation on the screen (presuming we\'re subtitling) and also fits into the limited space available.

E.g. if you were to translate it as \'ik ga verder met aardappels wassen/maniok malen/or whatever\', the guy is essentially saying \'I\'d rather been scrubbing spuds (etc.) than talking to a biggoted dumb-nut like you\'. Just a thought...