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How Star Wars reinforces our prejudices
Washington Compost ^ | Dec. 23, 2019 | Jeffery C. J. Chen

Posted on 01/11/2020 8:05:36 AM PST by EdnaMode

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To: Grampa Dave

Is Chen aware that only 50-60% of Ph.D. students complete their degrees? It’s a lot lower than that if he has set a 4 year time limit.


41 posted on 01/11/2020 1:41:43 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: EdnaMode
Star Wars is shot with “Orientalizing” stereotypes — patronizing tropes that represent an imagined East, or the Orient, as inferior to the rational, heroic West.

Actually, they really cleaned up the Buck Rogers-Flash Gordon material they started with.

No more Fu Manchu or Ming the Merciless.

42 posted on 01/11/2020 1:49:25 PM PST by x
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To: Svartalfiar

Yeah exactly. He must have watched the wrong movies.


43 posted on 01/11/2020 2:07:49 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Yeah let’s talk about Star Wars where the black guy is a drooling fanboy, a stereotype that the KKK would be proud of.


44 posted on 01/11/2020 3:06:13 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Bobalu

Plus the black man was drinking dirty pig water in the first moviemail like a slave. It’s funny how a man is made to look pathetic and disgusting in each of these movies.


45 posted on 01/11/2020 3:07:48 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: EdnaMode
Williams’s music associates the “good guys” with the grand orchestral style of the European Romantics (think of the beautifully hummable melodies for Luke, Leia and Rey), while the themes for the “bad guys” are expressed in the vocabulary of Chinese, Indian and Middle Eastern music.

Political campaign ads have been doing this long before Star Wars hit the screen.

-PJ

46 posted on 01/11/2020 3:16:11 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: scrabblehack

The dropout rate might be higher at Stanford.


47 posted on 01/11/2020 5:40:45 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Democrats sue Iran over right to use "Death to America" as their 2020 campaign slogan!)
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To: EdnaMode
Imagine waking up every day looking for racism everywhere.

Meanwhile the Left has no problem imposing their liberal immoral ideology on other cultures, requiring they support the homosexual agenda, and abortion, etc, while fostering the victim-entitlement welfare mentality.

48 posted on 01/11/2020 5:51:40 PM PST by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Grampa Dave

https://profiles.stanford.edu/jeffery-chen

He started Autumn 2018.

https://history.stanford.edu/academics/graduate-programs/phd-requirements/requirements

Stanford has a 6 year limit (a lot of schools have a 10 year limit).


49 posted on 01/11/2020 6:11:14 PM PST by scrabblehack
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