Tatar, Becky wrote:
>After reading the NAATA piece, I realize that some of their concerns are
>valid. However, since most of these films were in black and white, how
>could they tell the actors had been made up in yellowface? Secondly, you
>will never get away from stereotypes in film or literature. Everyone comes
>from their own background and sees everything through a different frame of
>reference. One of the worst stereotypes that is still considered acceptable
>are the portrayals of many Christians - usually shown as narrow minded,
>rigid, and intolerant. Portrayals of Catholics are even worse. What about
>last year's controversy surrounding the show "The Sopranos?" And lets not
>forget the ever popular evil German Nazis, and those superstitious folk in
>Transylvania with their vampires and all. You can go on and on. Changing
>stereotypes does not start with ignoring or forgetting the past, or, pardon
>the expression, another stereotype? - whitewashing it. Education is the
>only way. Just my 2 cents as a German Romanian American Catholic.
>
>Becky Tatar
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