Response to "Colonialism, Racism, and Representation" reading

This seems to be an article that explains how sticky the situation can get when humans try to communicate to other humans: portrayals of other humans they don't understand. It discusses the roots of to our "politically correct" world, and that they stem from colonialism. This is a term I was not familiar with and find it will help me greatly in the future in understanding more about documentary work. Most of our problems generated by racism, sexism, class subordination, etc are the children of the time in which European powers (including the United States) had established a solid foundation and started down the road to political and cultural domination on their neighbor continents. During this process, cultures of the "Third World" were looked down upon and seen as fixer-uppers to these established well-to-do nations. The poor, the non-white, the "backward" were beginning to be introduced and possibly converted to types of Western ways of life and government. From what I understand, the majority of these efforts were not beneficial and were destructive of many rich cultures and people.

What was really fascinating to me was the pickle writers, filmmakers, and people in general find themselves in when it comes to portraying minorities. It's written that much of the work on racism in the the cinema has stressed the issue of 'positive image'. Shit! No matter what you do, a good number of people will be offended. If you attempt and accurate representation, it still won't cover all dimensions of a people, and if you try and make a people look good, some are insulted by the fact someone felt they needed to look good.
This is a topic that is important for everyone to try and be aware of, no matter if it's related to film, literature, or politics. Racism is in everything we do, what we say, and how we act. It saddens me but I'm glad to have read this.

Prejudice is as common in a human being as blood.

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