Posted on 11/29/2014 10:56:58 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter tonight to defend 20th Century Fox's new movie "Exodus" that casts Christian Bale as Moses, and a variety of white actors as Egyptians. There’s been scuffle on Twitter ever since Murdoch made his observations. And a lot of this stems from a quote director Ridley Scott gave Variety about why he didn’t use Egyptian or Arab actors for the film. He said: "I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such," Scott says. "I'm just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up."
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Early Arabs were Nabateans, I believe, also conquered by the Roman Empire. They were inveterate traders. When they landed in Portugal, THEY named it "bortugal," which means "orange" in Arabic, since it was the first time the Arabs had seen the citrus orange.
The Arabs have no "p" in their alphabet so it sounded like Bortugal, but was later elided into Portugal.
Even some Portuguese guides didn't know that bit of information about their own country.
From Wikipedia:
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Ask Kareem Salama, billed as the first Muslim country-western singer, what makes his music “country,” and he grins for about half a beat before answering, “Probably my accent.” Heidi Schumann for The New York Times
Kareem Salama, a singer from rural Oklahoma, at the Great America theme park in California.
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It is a full-bore Southern drawl, rooted in his rural Oklahoma childhood, and startling to those who don’t expect an Arabic name to come intertwined with such a distinct down-home voice. But the question hanging over Mr. Salama’s nascent career is whether he can find acceptance for both parts of his identity.
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Just plain WEIRD.
Next we'll see a "good ole boy" singing "Hava Naglia" (הבה נגילה "Let us rejoice") in Jerusalem, replete with Stetson, boots, belt buckle--spittin' out his wad.
Their SLAVES hailed from south of the Sahara.
Not their pharaohs.
Wow! You're not kidding. She's also a good example of the "more is more" school of attire.
” The ruling class was surely light skinned compared to the general population. That seems to be a rule in ALL societies.”
Especially in Mexico. Spaniards rule Mexico. The native population is nothing but subjects.
It is true in Senegal and the Congo also. It is true in tribes and in nations. In Central Africa if a very black man upends the ruling structure and makes himself Chief or President or whatever he then marries his children to light skinned husbands and wives. It is not a racial bias but it is a skin tone bias and it is universal. There are other implications of this trend but we don’t talk about that.
At least one dynasty was from south of the Sahara. And there is always some admixture- miscegnation if you will- between ruling and slave populations. There is also what seems to be a sociobiological rule that the ruling class is lighter skinned than the subject population in every society with occasional anomalies i.e. the Ethiopian 25th dynasty that ruled Egypt.
“a “dead” language like Latin, is still spoken by some...especially if they want the Americans to NOT understand them.”
Funny you say that as my mother’s family is Irish, and even after many, many generations of being in the US, they still teach their children a form of a Celtic language. My mother moved away so I never got that privilege, but there were still many words that slipped in. Stranger still is that while being in the South they adopted Christianity, many old polytheist cultural idioms still exist in the families. Some of it tongue in check, but much of it instinctive.
Cheek=Check. **coffee!**
You restate the obvious, but you don’t counter the main fact. The Egyptian Pharoahs shared more DNA with the rest of the Eastern Mediterranean rim than they did with sub-Saharan Africa. Much more.
I learned growing up that the Pharohs were Circassian.
Those folks who can trace their heritage to the ancient Egyptains are today’s Coptic Christians.
This is not in dispute. You do seem unwillìng, however, to allow as how people other than Irishmen and Swedes are capable of anything at all. It doesn’t work that way.
Whatever that is.
Excuse me? Care to cite that accusation of racism with a specific reference?
"Are you still beating your wife and kicking your dog, Art?"
There is just as much behind that accusation as yours. Ad-hominem attacks only demonstrate a small mind and character.
Polytheistic idioms still in Celtic language.
St. Patrick was taken captive by the Irish in 401 A.D. He converted Ireland in the late century. So, these families' polytheist idioms extend back to the fifth century? Their idioms go back 1,600 years?
I know that the "wearin' o' the green" goes way back, but not that far. Just saying.
“Their idioms go back 1,600 years? “
Christianity is 2,000 years old, so why the surprise at 1,600 year old Celtic ways? Or even longer, a 4,000+ year old Jewish history?
There has been a resurgence of Celtic ways. I know people going back to “the old country” and learning Celtic history, language, and customs. I had a friend go back to Ireland for his wedding. The entire thing was Celtic. The Irish hold on Christianity is weak at best outside the Catholic areas. They have not lost their heritage of history. It is still alive and has had a resurgence.
FAITH and begora.
"Quare."
"Happy out."
"Put the heart crossways" in someone.
http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/travel/35-irish-sayings-and-phrases-you-need-to-learn-before-you-visit-221197271-237785021.html#
Isn’t she invisible?
It’s just a movie...Made for entertainment...
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