SOC 525 Chapter Notes - Chapter Articles: Downtown Eastside, Robert Pickton, Jiwani
18 Nov 2016
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Media and images of inequality week four readings. Avatar: return of the natives by zizek (2010) Storyline is about an ex-marine sent from earth to infiltrate a race of blue-skinned aboriginal people (spiritual, harmony with nature) on another planet and persuade them to let his employer mine their homeland for natural resources. Marine falls in love with an aboriginal princess, joins their side, and ends up becoming one of them. Takes place in a future reality, showing that the same offenses committed by white men against native people are still present and will continue to be. Two realities within the film; the ordinary world of the imperial colonist, and the fantasy world of the aborigines (completel(cid:455) separates (cid:862)us(cid:863) fro(cid:373) (cid:862)the(cid:373),(cid:863) otheri(cid:374)g the(cid:373)) Avatar teaches us that the only choice of the aborigines is to be saved by humans or destroyed by them; either (cid:448)i(cid:272)ti(cid:373)s of i(cid:373)perialis(cid:373), or pla(cid:455)i(cid:374)g a role i(cid:374) the (cid:449)hite (cid:373)a(cid:374)"s fantasy.
