I recently watched the movie "Baggage claim" which has a predominantly black cast. Which is a good thing, personally I enjoy watching Black movies. Not that i'm being racist to white films I think that sometimes its just good to see Colored people being represented on Television, even though i'm not African American i think i can relate more to their stories than white stories. I love the series Empire I think it is very empowering to black people, and i hope that one day i'll be able to help create influential and empowering stuff for Pacific people as we are a minority and we are hardly ever represented on screen, apart from within New Zealand. Anyways watching "Baggage claim" i started thinking about how by having a predominantly black cast makes the African American race seem like the superior people rather than white people. I think this is done not necessarily to be racist to white people but rather to empower African American people.
I think colored people have in someway or the other had influential success within the Film Industry. For example Bollywood, Chinese Action Films and African American films. But Pacific people have just touched the surface of this. I think this is what makes us again a minority in the way that we are hardly ever present or being represented onscreen's worldwide. And when we are it is the question of how we are being represented, and who is creating this representation.
I find that the people of the Pacific are at a disadvantage and at a advantage.
The disadvantage is that we are under represented in the world, people all over the world hardly know that we exist because we are hardly represented. And when we are represented are we being represented in the right ways, who is creating this representation of us and can this representation be changed.?
The advantages we still can change these representations because we are under represented on screens world wide. Our stories have not been told thus we still have time to develop an identity hopefully one that is empowering and influential.
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