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Arrr You Being Lied To About Pirates? Shore! Oar: Racism in Today's U.S. Media
Images of the “third world” have long been distorted before they are displayed to the American public. Most people don’t even know that “third world” refers to the Cold War and should have died along with “red scare” and those bomb drills where schoolchildren were put under desks. American ignorance abounds when it comes to [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under colonial power, empire, genocide, media bias, offensive, oil, racism, third world.
Tags: africa, africans, alexander the great, bandits, barbarians, bomb drills, cold war, colonization, crime, cultural bias, economics, empire, emporer, haystack, ignorance, johnny depp, kareem, massacre, Media, media bias, oil, piracy, pirates, prejudice, psychology, racism, red scare, robber, rwanda, rwandan genocide, Somalia, starvation, stuff white people like, third world, toxic waste, western culture, white people
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Bolivia and Women as Vessels of Cultural Authenticity
Tonight, my flight leaves for Bolivia at 8:30. I´m excited for the visit because my money will go farther there, and because it will be the first country that I´ve ever been to which has a thriving indigenous culture. It´s a culture that I don´t know much about, so I´ve been trying to do some [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2007 under 18th century, Aramayá, Barbie, Bolivia, Bolivian, Female Sexuality, La Paz, Miss Bolivia, Quillacollo, Robert Albro, Western, anthropology, bourgeoisie, chola, cholita, colonialism, culture, designer jeans, dress, empire, empowerment, fashion, femininity, gender, globalization, historical actor, identity, image, indigenous culture, market seller, objectification, oppression, politics, pop culture, popular woman, resistance, root metaphor, spanish king, standard of beauty, traditional dress, viceroy toledo, woman.
Tags: Aymara
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