American history has nothing to do with love

Joelle 2021-10-13 13:05:27

Chairman Mao once said: To read history, to understand history. Every one of us has been learning history from elementary school. From the Emperor Qin and Hanwu to the four ancient civilizations, we have all browsed, and those few textbooks cover the entire history of mankind. Therefore, we will choose the standard answer to fill in the top of the final exam. We will memorize large sections of the original words in the history textbook, and then fill in the examination papers almost completely. As a result, I was extremely disgusted with this way of studying history. I vowed to only study science and never study liberal arts after graduating from elementary school. Later, I firmly chose science.

But seriously, I am very interested in history. If history is not tested, I will read the history textbook carefully and slowly. I once remembered the last semester when I studied history in the first year of high school. Our history teacher was very interesting. He also took exams, and the exam questions he gave were no different from other teachers. However, he will multiply all of our grades by ten. The students who plan to study liberal arts say that this teacher is not capable, but I like him very much. He never brought textbooks in class. He told us stories and told us one by one historical events as stories. Talking about human history from primitive society to modern society, he doesn't let us learn history, he let us feel history. However, he does not give us a summary, never, he only allows us to sum up after class. The perception of history actually started from him, even though I later studied computer.

With so much nonsense, what I actually want to say is that Wang Xiaobo once said that he had watched the best movie "American Histroy X" (American Histroy X) (American Histroy X). This film is directed by Tony Kaye, starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong. It is also the first film directed by Tony Kaye. It is about one of the most serious problems in American history: racism.

Many people may not have a deep understanding of the word racism. They only saw the word on TV, movies, newspapers and magazines, but they have never really experienced it personally, including me. There are many ethnic groups in this world, but they are generally divided into four categories: white race, yellow race, black race, and brown race. Perhaps the nature of human beings is to kill each other. These murderous and hateful people see only the skin color but never thought that the individual who is slightly different from their appearance is also a human being. As a result, the world has the KKK, the skinheads, the black slaves, and the Indonesian riots... So Derek Wynya shaved his head, wore Nazi tattoos and swear words to get into trouble, and hated all people of color. Kind of and become a follower of neo-Nazis. He led a large number of young people in the community to persecute people of color everywhere, until later in the night, after shooting two black men in revenge, he was arrested by the police and thrown into prison.

I started to pay attention to Edward Norton from this movie. In the film, he started as a rebellious teenager who grew up under his father's racial education. When his father was shot and killed by a black man, he quickly turned hatred into racial discrimination. While in prison, he was sodomized by whites and cooperated with blacks. With the help of the former black principals, he slowly discovered that people are good and bad, and cannot be divided simply by skin color. Then, coming out of prison, trying to save his younger brother who was repeating his mistakes... He put such a complicated role-playing experience into the bottom line. From the distorted face to the peaceful eyes later, the mental journey of a neo-Nazi has been completely reproduced in him. He was nominated for Best Actor in Oscar in 1998.

In the film, Edward Furlong, the actor of Derek Wynya's younger brother, once played against Arnold in "Devil's Terminator II", but he has grown up in this film. In the film, he is an admirer of his elder brother, so he is called a neo-Nazi by following his elder brother's footsteps step by step. In school, he discriminated against classmates of colored races, and stabbed himself with many neo-Nazi totems. Seeing that Danny was about to step in the footsteps of his brother, his black teacher ordered him to recall his brother's various behaviors at the time. , Compiled a report, through this report, we can easily see the sad past and helplessness of this family, the name of this work is "American X File". In the end, he finally completed the report, and he finally really relaxed to look at the world with a whole new perspective, seeing all the white, black, yellow...people around him. However, on the morning when he arrived at the school to hand in the report, he was shot and killed by a black classmate in the toilet. The blood was splashed on the white tiles, shockingly.

In the United States, due to historical reasons, there are still many racial discriminators. The world is not as free and equal as we imagined. Some white families start to educate their children when their children are very young. Don't treat people of color as human beings. It is people of color that pollute the world. I still don’t understand why we should limit the universal human competition to the issue of skin color. Are those people cowardly or paranoid, or are they strong from the outside? Naturally, only the skin color is used to divide the area where people live. Later, human society has developed. People of different skin colors live, live and work together. No one is inferior to another, and no race is noble than another. Hitler’s Aryan ethnography has deceived how many people, and it has evolved into World War II. Shouldn’t we learn from it? We shouldn't be used by others. We are all human beings. We should live in peace.

"American History X" is the only movie I have seen that strongly focuses on racism. It has nothing to do with love. The director only cast his sights on racism and violence, which shocked us so much. In fact, love is really not the only thing in our lives. We still have a lot of things to pay attention to, and there are still many things waiting for us to be moved. Not everyone can live comfortably and peacefully. If we rotate the globe one week, we will find that green accounts for less than 1% of the earth! the only……

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  • Murray: Derek, what are you trying to prove?

  • Reporter: [Rasmussen shows a video of a crying Derek with his mother talking to a reporter after his father's death] Look I know this is tough. But how do you feel right now?

    Derek Vinyard: How do you think I feel? I think it's typical.

    Reporter: Typical how?

    Derek Vinyard: Well, this country is becoming a haven for criminals so what do you expect? You know, decent hard-working Americans like my dad are getting rubbed out by social parasites.

    Reporter: Parasites?

    Derek Vinyard: Blacks, Browns, Yellow whatever.

    Reporter: I don't understand you're saying that you think maybe your father's murder was race related?

    Derek Vinyard: Yeah it's race related! Every problem in this country is race related not just crime. It's like... immigration, AIDS, welfare those are problems in them. The Black community, the Hispanic community, the Asian community, they're not White problems.

    Reporter: Derek, are those really issues that deal with poverty?

    Derek Vinyard: No. You know, no. They're not products of the environment either that's crap. Minorities don't give two shits about this country, they've come here to exploit it, not to embrace it.

    Reporter: What does this...

    Derek Vinyard: I mean millions of white European Americans came here and flourished you know within a generation so what the fuck is the matter with these people going around shooting a... fireman?

    [cries]

    Reporter: What does this have to do with the murder of your father?

    Derek Vinyard: Because my father was murdered doing his job! Putting out a fire in fucking Nigger neighborhood. He shouldn't be giving a shit about. He got shot by a fucking drug dealer who probably still collects a welfare check!