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Film ”Mississippi Burning” and President Obama
The story is one Afro-American civil activist disappeared somewhere in Missippi 1964 and FBI men searched for them. Then they faced brutality of local people. The film described how uncivilized and scary deep South like Mississippi was. I remember when I was in America, Afro-American ... Read more ...
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Becoming Xenophobic
Today I joined my new job training. I just witnessed how ordinary people have become Xenophobic these days in Japan. Maybe it is because Japan has been in big recession and Chinese ship intruded Japanese territorital sea which caused diplomatic turmoil just recently. ... Read more ...
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Film”Miracle at St. Anna” Italy's position in WWII
Directed by Spike Lee. A story of Black soldiers fighting against Nazis in Italy during WW II. Although the film wasn't well-edited but I could learn so much about WW II history in Europe, especially Italy's position in the war. I also could learn how Black soldiers are treated in the w... Read more ...
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Film”Gone with the Wind” the origin of...
Maybe the most famous Hollywood film in history, I think. I bought the DVD of it for 500 yen recently. The film was 3 hour and half long and all color though it was produced in 1930's. The story of a passionate and selfish daughter of plantation owner who lived through the Civil War ... Read more ...
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Disney's ”Sleeping Beauty” is sexist, racist,...
Walt Disney has been known as Hollywood's most racist and sexist person in history. His movies reflect his views. "Sleeping Beauty" was one of the good examples. It reflects public opinion at that time. The film was released in 1959. The princess named Aurora was cursed by a witch. The curse... Read more ...
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Here comes White Crusaders again!
American dolphin trainer named Ric O'Barry is taking on Japan's traditional culture. He loves dolphins so he doesn't like Japanese dolphin hunting in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture. He came to the town and shoot the scenes of hunting and made documentary film. Here comes again afte... Read more ...
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TV drama: ”Cashmere Mafia” Elite women in America
I just happen to rent a DVD of this TV show. A story of 4 successful working women in New York. Lucy Liu, Chinese American actress seems to be a main character. This is surprising thing. Asian woman took a main role in a popular soapopera. The story features America's latest social movement... Read more ...
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”Miss Universe” is sexist and racist pageant
Miss Japan for this year's "Miss Universe" competition was selected, 24 year-old fashion model. In 2007 Miss Japan won Miss Universe Crown. Was that good news? Actually, I did not care and even despise the praise people were making. This pageant should be criticised for its sexi... Read more ...
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British Film ”The Thief of Baghdad” looked like...
Well, very surprising! The movie was made in 1940 but the most important character was Black boy. It was midst of World War I. The story is a boy named Abu who lived his life by stealing things in Baghdad, met a young ousted king, Ahmad. Ahmad fell in love with a princess in Basra. Jaf... Read more ...
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I was right! That was racist ad!
Last month, I mentioned the below ad was racist using monkey as OBAMA in presidential election campaign. The company that uses the ad, EMOBILE admitted the commercial was offensive to Afro-Americans considering the historical fact that monkey character had been used to portray ... Read more ...