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Old 2009-12-30, 21:48   Link #111
cheyannew
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Originally Posted by Nosauz View Post
This has nothing to do with "black people" the navi are far more similar to the native americans. This is specifically from their intuneness with nature. This is a heavily didactic movie that seems to be an attempt to shame americans of their treatment of native americans during the expansion of the west and the settling of the east. And not so much african americans since the racism features little to do with slavery and more with a land grab/resource grab much like in the 1800s and european powers that ravaged latin america and south america.
I was using that specific term as it was in the article that had been posted; similarities were made between the Na'vi and African tribes. Personally I saw far more Native American similarities but what do I know, as I don't write blogs/articles, right?
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