Henry W Jones said:Good luck there.
My thoughts exactly.
Henry W Jones said:Good luck there.
RKORadio said:I just agree with the Indians that have said TOD is racially insensitive.
Once again... are you an Indian?RKORadio said:I just agree with the Indians that have said TOD is racially insensitive.
RKORadio said:I'm not Indian but I'm against racism and/or racial insensitivity.
Much of the depiction of Indians in TOD was brownface short of actually browning up - as the Indian government said at the time.
RKORadio said:I'm not Indian but I'm against racism and/or racial insensitivity.
Much of the depiction of Indians in TOD was brownface short of actually browning up - as the Indian government said at the time.
Dr. Gonzo said:By definition Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the only entry that is "racist".
"...A race of supreme beings..."
Dr. Gonzo said:Surely you must also be opposed to "Die Hard" as that films depiction of European Germanic terrorists isn't a very tasteful view of that race... right?
Right?
Come on guy... you're barking up the wrong tree.
I said it earlier in this thread (December 2012), the only Indiana Jones film that is racist is Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
RKORadio said:The only depiction of Indians we get are superstitious villagers who worship Indy and the "educated" Indians we see - such as the Oxford-educated Prime Minister - are shown as evil. The only "good" Indians - the soldiers under the British - are shown but don't speak.
That enough for you?
RKORadio said:The only depiction of Indians we get are superstitious villagers who worship Indy and the "educated" Indians we see - such as the Oxford-educated Prime Minister - are shown as evil. The only "good" Indians - the soldiers under the British - are shown but don't speak.
That enough for you?
RKORadio said:The only depiction of Indians we get are superstitious villagers who worship Indy and the "educated" Indians we see - such as the Oxford-educated Prime Minister - are shown as evil. The only "good" Indians - the soldiers under the British - are shown but don't speak.
We had moved to the United States, from Delhi, when I was eight, settling first in Queens and then in New Jersey. There weren't many other Indians in my middle school. Those of us who brought Indian food from home all sat at the same table in the cafeteria. Boys would wander by our table and sing, "<I>Shiiit</I>. I smell <I>shiiit</I>." They would lean over our shoulders, look at our food - spicy potatoes, okra, bitter gourd - and gag. Things became worse a few years later, when "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" came out: the movie shows Indians eating snakes and monkey brains. At lunch one day, a black boy asked me what I was eating, and I said snake. "Snake!" he began yelling. He sounded both happy and proud. Soon I was surrounded by a crowd. I wanted to fit in, of course, but even more I wanted to lash out.
Attila the Professor said:From the November 4, 2013 food issue of <I>The New Yorker</I>, an excerpt from the one-page piece "Butter" by Akhil Sharma, a 1.5 generation Indian-American whose family had an ambivalent relationship to American patterns of food consumption outside the home.
Henry W Jones said:So, it got worse when the film came out or when he told the other kids he was eating snake? It also sounds like they were teasing about the food (while not right, most kids do that) before the film came out.
Le Saboteur said:Now this, on the other hand, perfectly exemplifies the casual relationship with racism towards Indians segments of the United States still have.
Udvarnoky said:Sorry for the bump, but didn't somebody once have a pretty damning screenshot from the Raven shootout that exposed how the Nepalese/Mongolians were played by Caucasian extras with their eyes taped or something? A search of this thread yielded nothing.
When Toht is menacing Marion with the hot poker from the fire, one of the Sherpa henchmen is clearly wearing prosthetic makeup around his eyes, presumably to make the Western actor's rounded eyes look more Asian in appearance.