Tuesday, February 21, 2012

White Chicks

This film is one of the most popular Wayans Brothers film but is one of the most racial stereotyped films created in our generation. This film follows two FBI agents who have to go undercover to protect two heiresses. In the process they have to dress up as the two heiresses to protect them and everyone believes they the two heiresses themselves. While doing so they embody all kinds of Caucasian stereotypes. Just as seen in the Summer Eves' commercial they talk in text terms such as "bff", but in the film they mentioned a text-term I haven't heard before that which was "bf" for bitch fit. They acted just like the stereotypical valley girls who said thing such as "omg" and "wtf" and talk only about boys, fashion, and the latest gossip. Although they poke fun at these type of people we still watch it, just as we laughed at the Japanese McDonalds commercial we and laugh at this, but why? Just because it is different from what we are used to does that makes it OK to poke fun at another culture because its different then ours? This is where we believe that our culture is the best and all others should be just like us, but shouldn't we look at this in a different prospective and maybe try to pull ideas from their culture into our and vice versa to challenge this ideas, or is this asking to much from our society?

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