Indian Movies; Are They Bad
People usually know more about their own culture, but people also know something aboutother cultures too, whether it is true or not. A white man's perspective may be very different than an Indians perspective when it comes to the Indian culture. I once fell into that white man's category and thought Indians were evil, worthless, and scary. Well, it came from watching movies that have portrayed Indians that way. Many movies such as the famous John Wayne movie The Searchers, have made the Indian culture look like they are no better than dirt. While there are many of these mythical Indian movies, there are hardly any movies such as Smoke Signals, that portray who Indians really are. Thus, the majority of Indian movies, which were made by white people, have negatively influenced Indian culture with stereotypes that are very hateful towards the Indian culture. Why is it that when little kid's play Cowboys and Indians they almost always want to be the Cowboy? My mother told me a true story about this little Indian kid from church. My mom was at church and she watched as this little Indian kid wanted to play cowboys and Indians with this other kid. They both started to argue about who was going to be the
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