This weeks films and article incorporated for the second week of ANTH 310 was fairly distinguishable. It, to me was the focus of culture, but not in the traditional sense. It was about a multitude of things that culture does to society in a grand scale, the way how a person 's culture affects another’s in a positive or negative way once presented to the individual, and ultimately how these perceived ideals of each individual 's culture clash. We as a nation have to address every person 's culture especially in the U.S. considering the fact that we are a melting pot of races, migrated from all parts of the globe, but it still seems that we have this unabashed hatred or unwillingness to comply with another 's preference of lifestyle or philosophy.
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He works with a family of Italians in a pizzeria, I emphasize that they are Italian because there is a very obvious prejudice that some of the family members have over the races that reside around the restaurant. The main issue that is presented in the movie was the fact of no prominent famous black figures being on the pizzerias hall of fame. This issue which starts off being very minute, ends up becoming more and more problemsome that eventually ends up killing a young character in the film by cops. This film ultimately ends with the idea of continuing to live and move forward in a changing and hostile environment, with themes of racial ignorance and tolerance layered throughout which moves the movie plot. Key figures that are reiterated are Dr. Martin Luther King 's ideals as well as Malcom X’s. As a way to show how one person could do the right thing but in different manners like how so the characters do in the …show more content…
Such as in a certain part of the film once the soldiers are discharged the African troops were asked to give their traditional French uniforms with some cheap looking clothing, when some of the white frenchman are discussing the uniform switch, a man says they are not French citizens rather subjects. Mere pawns used for the sole interest of helping themselves. This is further perpetuated when once wearing the clothing a man states why they are sad, they should be happy the men are back in Africa they are overall native africans, but after going through all the hardships they have done having to be subjected to a prison camp and fighting the enemy as infantry the least they could assume is that they felt equal to the men they fought aside with regardless of race or country of birth. But instead the same men who recruited them subject them to horrid living conditions and being in a way segregated in the camp, because they assume the men are used to living in those circumstances considering they were from Africa. There are common reiterated statements in the film that enforce the idea of equality amongst others, like how the African troops state that there is no difference amongst a white frenchman and black frenchman. There is a very obvious issue between colors here in the film, just as Terry Jones once said (Jones 1974:218) “Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related
He works with a family of Italians in a pizzeria, I emphasize that they are Italian because there is a very obvious prejudice that some of the family members have over the races that reside around the restaurant. The main issue that is presented in the movie was the fact of no prominent famous black figures being on the pizzerias hall of fame. This issue which starts off being very minute, ends up becoming more and more problemsome that eventually ends up killing a young character in the film by cops. This film ultimately ends with the idea of continuing to live and move forward in a changing and hostile environment, with themes of racial ignorance and tolerance layered throughout which moves the movie plot. Key figures that are reiterated are Dr. Martin Luther King 's ideals as well as Malcom X’s. As a way to show how one person could do the right thing but in different manners like how so the characters do in the …show more content…
Such as in a certain part of the film once the soldiers are discharged the African troops were asked to give their traditional French uniforms with some cheap looking clothing, when some of the white frenchman are discussing the uniform switch, a man says they are not French citizens rather subjects. Mere pawns used for the sole interest of helping themselves. This is further perpetuated when once wearing the clothing a man states why they are sad, they should be happy the men are back in Africa they are overall native africans, but after going through all the hardships they have done having to be subjected to a prison camp and fighting the enemy as infantry the least they could assume is that they felt equal to the men they fought aside with regardless of race or country of birth. But instead the same men who recruited them subject them to horrid living conditions and being in a way segregated in the camp, because they assume the men are used to living in those circumstances considering they were from Africa. There are common reiterated statements in the film that enforce the idea of equality amongst others, like how the African troops state that there is no difference amongst a white frenchman and black frenchman. There is a very obvious issue between colors here in the film, just as Terry Jones once said (Jones 1974:218) “Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related