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Shayla McLean

Our history has played a very important role in where we are today, and how we are as people in our everyday lives.  The movie Avatar recognizes a great deal of our history, what has happened in the past, what is happening now and what is still yet to come. Avatar was a movie created by James Cameron; it was one of the most popular action movies of the year. Many of us may think it’s just a movie, but was that all that the famous director was trying to get across? They touch on cultural contact, colonialism, marginalization, ethnocentrism, and white man’s burden. These are just a few of the topics that they touch base on, which are key points in the movie and of course our history.

                 

                 

         The humans also referred to as the “Sky People” go in and they set up sites on Pandora caring very little about the Na’vi peoples land. The sky people go in and try to take over Pandora; Very similar with what happened when the Europeans came in and invaded the Native people and there land. The humans figured that since they were there now, that they were free to do whatever they may please. This is an example that represents cultural contact.

The sky people think that they are better then the Na’vi people. To them their culture and their way of life was good, the right way and the only way. Na’vi peoples culture was ignored, the sky people took out the Na’vi’s home tree, and the sacred trees with access to communication to the ancestors. Sky people were very selfish they wanted to Na’vi to leave off into the forest, and leave everything behind. Simply because it will benefit the humans in a better way.

         Jake Sulley goes into his second body, the one as an Avatar, there he will learn the Na’vi people’s way of life and become one of them. As well as learn there culture and identity. (more to add)

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