mar 18th 2007
most yanks have no idea that persians are white.
in this review,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/opinion/18stephenson.html?th&emc=th
the fellow says:
quote:
All of the good guys are white people and many of the bad guys are brown. (How this could have been avoided in a film about Spartans versus Persians is never explained; the distinctly non-Greek viewers at my showing seemed to have no trouble placing themselves in the sandals of ancient Spartans.)
unquote
has this guy ever seen an iranian? they are as white as greeks. in fact, the two are practically indistinguishable.
it used to amaze me that during the 1980s carter-era iranian hostage crisis, lots of whites used to yell 'iranians go home' at indians!
all this is a prelude to some kind of american action against iran, i think. although it certainly wont be an invasion. it might be precision bombing or other remote-control activity.
demonizing the enemy is an ancient tactic. of course, being a non-white is equivalent to being sub-human in the white narrative. thus persians become inhuman and non-white.
1 comment:
Remember the black Rosanna Dawson as Roxana in Oliver Stone's Alexander. It's not the first time that Middle Easterners and Central Asians have been anachronistically darkened in film in recent times. The older movie "The 300 Spartans" portrayed the Persians' racial makeup more accurately (although that could have been due to a dearth of good dark-skinned actors at the time), with the fair-skinned David Farrar as Xerxes.
On the other hand, a recent Chinese movie "Battle of Wits" used a black actor to portray a foreign slave, when he would have most likely been a Central Asian Caucasian.
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