Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Ethnocentric Incident

Was watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and got to the point where the other Golden Ticket winners are introduced and found myself a little upset that Americans in the movie are portrayed so negatively. The kids are violent, disrespectful and a little amoral; their parents are either spineless and ineffectual or worse than their kids.

These thoughts were quickly followed by my wondering why I wasn't bothered by the fact that all the Germans in the movie are fat and gluttonous and most of the Britons are pricks.

I was a little ashamed.

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