Racial Prejudice In The Movie Windtalkers

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The movie windtalkers was in reference to World War II. This movie is about Navajo Indians that were fighting against Japanese troops during the war. There were a lot of racial discrimination and racial prejudice despite all the good contributions the American Indians made for the Unites States of America. One of the soldiers in the movie seemed to prejudice. The Navajo Indians used a special code to send messages back and forth to each other. These code talks were most often under the protection of a marine. If the enemy got too close the code talkers, it was the duty of the marine to kill them. What I learned from the movie called windtalkers, in reference to racial discrimination and racial prejudice is that racism and prejudice exists

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