Avatar
Essay
The following essay will show the
connection to the fictional movie, Avatar, with real-life, historical
globalization. The Na’vi and human contact show a great deal of similarity with
the European-Native contact. If you compare any of the major events in the
movie to history, the settling of North America and enslavement of African’s,
both show ethnocentrism, marginalization, and assimilation. James
Cameron and his writing team undoubtedly planned these things when he came up
with the plot and story. By the end of this essay I hope to prove that history
can and will repeat if given a chance.
I’m going to start with assimilation as
my first topic of discussion; namely the Avatar Program. The Avatar program was
made so that the scientist’s could interact with the Na’vi on a personal level,
but the program was funded by the company, whose intention was to as Parker
Selfridge, the Head administrator for the RDA on Pandora, says
paraphrased, “…If
you walk like them, you talk like them; they'll trust you. We build them a
school, teach them English. But after - how many years - the relations with the
indigenous are only getting worse.” This is basically is saying that the Avatar
Program was made to show the Na’vi how they were supposed to act.
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