Dear white people
Global culture is now a known fact. Everything is shared between different cultures et people. If it’s obvious with the food, I think that cinema is also a great example of the globalization. Indeed everyone is watching movies from a different culture or with foreigners actors, and Netflix is probably the perfect example of it. However global culture can be debated, can we share everything?
That’s precisely what is about the series named « Dear White People » however, and obviously, it’s on Netflix.
To sum up it’s the story of few black students who all live in the same dorm of a huge and mostly white college. So as the black students represent a small percentage of the student body (because so many of them hail from middle-class backgrounds) they’re caught in a series of identity vises, constantly pushed to prove that they’re definitely this and not that. To resist, one of those black students decided to create a radio show named « Dear white people » where she denounces the absurdity of what the whites said and think about them, and mainly a party organized by a white association about the « African culture ». But obviously, doing this show create problems within the university because whites students consider it as racism.
Moreover, we learn that the main character is dating a white guy and it turns into a scandal. So does it means that we can share everything but not when it concern relationship and people in general?
However what if think is the more interesting is the reacts of the real people who saw this show. Indeed it was supposed to be a series to highlight the absurdity of the racial thoughts, not only of the white people but also of the black ones and it turns out that a lot of viewers didn’t appreciate it and though it precisely was racist and with too many clichés.
Hello!
ReplyDeleteThanks’ you for your article. I found it very interesting and passionate. I really agree with your position. You highlight the absurdity of the racial thought. We always talk about white people who are racist to the black population but never from the opposite. That is a true thing in a world and we often forget that.
You said in your conclusion that some viewer didn’t appreciate this series because it’s racist and with so many clichés. But justly, I think this show can open the mind of many people and change the way of thighs. If something you seems to be cliché, look at you? What do you do? This means racist? And you what is your reaction if you are in the same situation?
After reading your article I really would like to see this series. So, thanks’ you so much because I finish mind yesterday.
Moreover, I just would like to come back at the begging of your article. You said that Netflix is the perfect example of globalization. But, to be honest I do not completely agree with that. Yes, on this website we can see a lot of abroad show, but we can’t see all. If you connect your account on a different country, you don’t have the same things. Some Japan show was forbidden in France for example.
To put on a nutshell, Thank you for this article, it was really interesting to read it.