Clint Eastwood is awesome...
My older brother took me to the movies to see "Gran Torino", which fit very well in the topic of struggle for equality. This hit a lot in the feild of Asian people, but mostly gang affiliation with the Vietnamese. The leading lady is a young vietnamese girl who talks about her family moving to America because they wanted to be free of Communism, and faces a new fear that Americans impose because of prejudice.
The young girl gets rape threats left and right, and eventually gets gang raped by her own cousin's gang, because she is friends with the man next door- A war veteran who fought in Vietnam. Their people are depicted as either being spat at or adored by Americans.
The major arguement that the gang makes for themselves is that they are protecting their own people. They feel looked down upon by Americans, and even Asians of different countries, and feel a preamtive strike is the only way to protect themselves. The projection theory doesn't exactly help their cause in this instance.
I never really saw asian people being looked down upon, so I never saw these problems before. This movie really enlightened me. As I said before in my Haole Journal, I guess racism really does occur in ALL races.
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