Atlantis, The Lost Empire

“We are not thriving. True, our people live, but our culture is dying. We are like a stone the ocean beats against. With each year a little more of us is worn away”, for all of Disney’s heart wrenching dialogues, this simple statement made by princess Kida, in the profoundly underrated movie “Atlantis, The Lost Empire”, affected me the most. The thought of a race that was once so magnificent losing its history and cultural background hit a little too close to home for me, having lived in Iran and been made to study something that translated into “Current History”, which is, by definition, an oxymoron. The study of cultures had always been a big part of my life, living in Dubai from ages five through seven resulted in my being introduced to people from all over the world, each with their own values and ambitions, and I, with the curious nature that most …show more content…
I deeply enjoyed the open-minded approach that anthropologists were prone to utilize when learning about different peoples and cultures. Moreover, the fact that archaeology used physical remains in order to reconstruct past lifeways was much more satisfying that the “he said, she said” of today’s history books; modern archaeologist seem to operate on the notion that people from all time zones were still human beings and refused to turn them into the animalistic “savage” beings that are always depicted in media. The concept that, each item has a cultural significance and that each culture should be studied with an insider’s unclouded perspective resulted in me throwing myself into as many anthropology classes I