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djsmnc
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Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| travel zen wrote: |
I remember seeing some unedited Walt Disney cartoons that was shown up until the 1980's....serious racism ! |
Yes, but if they were produced and accepted for so long, would it not be safe to say that they are a reflection of commonly held perceptions at the time? They may not have been "correct" according to out modern definition, but were new stereotypes actually being perpetuated?
I was reading how in Mississippi that a courthouse wants to remove a mural from the early 1930's that depicts white aristocracy relaxing on a plantation while downtrodden blacks pick cotton and play the fiddle. The black judge made a statement that I admired, to the effect of "We need to remove the mural, but not destroy it. It is a great painting, but it is not life today. It is history and should be put in a museum as such"
Life was different in the past. |
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Dude Ranch
Joined: 04 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:39 am Post subject: Re: Asian stereotypes in Hollywood |
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| catman wrote: |
| Mr. Chow is seen naked in one scene. Yes (here's a bit of a spoiler), we see his small *beep*. I'm sure many people have heard the stereotype that Asian males have small penises, which made me disappointed in how this film was reinforcing this stereotype. |
Is this the reason The Hangover is not out in the theaters in Korea yet???? |
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travel zen
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Life was different in the past. |
It was. There was some serious, accepted but hardly acceptable racism in the past. Not acceptable because even then, many people thought it should be changed... and so it was.
WWII and the Nazis did not spring from a vacuum, many countries held the same opinions of Human Darwinism... including Walt Disney 
I agree that the past should never be eradicated or changed, but the present should always strive to do better, without the carry-over hate/shame/ignorance and fear. |
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