Posted by Lou Pilder on January 16, 2007, at 14:51:53
In reply to Joy Luck Club + stereotypes... - Auntie Mel, posted by one woman cine on January 16, 2007, at 11:16:13
> I must respectfully disagree with Joy Luck Club...
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> By extension of Auntie Mel's and Kath's "Joy Luck Club" -
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> For understanding groups we don't understand, read book "XYZ"
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> watch (or read) One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest to understand the mentally ill.
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> watch the Lone Ranger to understand American Indians...
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> read (or watch) Huckleberry Finn or the Color purple to understand african americans...
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> To understand the South, read Flannery O'connor or Tennesee William's "streetcar named desire"
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> Watch the Sopranos to understand Italian americans.
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> & on it goes.....
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> http://www.colorado.edu/ftep/diversity/div06.html
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one woman cine,
You wrote,[..."Joy Luck Club"...for understanding groups we don't understand, read book "XYZ"...].
Thank you for bringing out that there is the potential for a group to be sterotyped by one person's depiction, even if it is innocently portrayed. I believe that there is the potential for that to happen IMO via a television series, or a movie or a book or perhaps a club or cult where the content is controlled by leaving open to malign a particular group, where sterotyping of other groups would not be allowed.
I believe that the principles of social justice make no distinction as to the author's intent of any work that has the potential to sterotype a group of peoples. Wherever I see people of any nature, the subject for the potential to be sterotyped as a group of people, I try with all my might for that to be repudiated so that there is no doubt that the sterotyping is not endorsed.
Lou
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