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<blockquote data-quote="j&#039;nuh" data-source="post: 810959" data-attributes="member: 55446"><p>The name is not the problem. It's the stereotyping.</p><p></p><p>Let's say you watch a movie. In it, a group of French people are portrayed as obnoxious. Does that make you think that the French, as a whole, are obnoxious? No, because other movies, other TV shows, other books, personal experience, the news etc. will portray French people in a variety of different lights.</p><p></p><p>Now think about Native American people. Are they treated with the same variety, or do you just have the same tropes repeated endlessly? The issue is arguably worse in Britain. By and large, we cannot draw on personal experiences of having met Native American people. There's a risk that we perpetuate the tropes through ignorance.</p><p></p><p>Which is why I like what Dr. Pratt had to say. Providing for a cultural exchange to exchange ideas and mitigating the risk that Native American people are homogenised seems a good idea to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 810959, member: 55446"] The name is not the problem. It's the stereotyping. Let's say you watch a movie. In it, a group of French people are portrayed as obnoxious. Does that make you think that the French, as a whole, are obnoxious? No, because other movies, other TV shows, other books, personal experience, the news etc. will portray French people in a variety of different lights. Now think about Native American people. Are they treated with the same variety, or do you just have the same tropes repeated endlessly? The issue is arguably worse in Britain. By and large, we cannot draw on personal experiences of having met Native American people. There's a risk that we perpetuate the tropes through ignorance. Which is why I like what Dr. Pratt had to say. Providing for a cultural exchange to exchange ideas and mitigating the risk that Native American people are homogenised seems a good idea to me. [/QUOTE]
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