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Old 12-30-2003, 02:23 PM   #19 (permalink)
Conclamo Ludus
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Originally posted by Strange Famous
A lot of hip hop is not sexist or violent, and very little of it is racist. The whole of rap culture is not G Unit and Mobb Deep and people like that you know...
The whole of the Lord of the Rings is not "Southrons looking Arab" and "heroes looking European", either. You can choose which pieces to pull out and be offended by. Anyone could find offense in anything they want to. I'm more in agreement with Lurkette to some extent. I think this guy is whacko, but we live in an ethnocentric society, and always have. We identify with eachother easier that way. Of course the heroes of these books will look European, they were written by a European person. If Tolkien were Arab, it would probably be quite a different book, and if Peter Jackson was Asian, it would have been a totally different looking movie. We naturally glorify people we identify with and villify things that are mysterious to us, neither Jackson nor Tolkien should be dragged through the mud for it.

Somebody on a LOTR thread mentioned that they thought that adding the giant eagles to the movie was just a lame attempt at US patriotism. If I remember they weren't "added" to the movie.

This is blown way out of proportion.

::wanders off to find something to be offended by::
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