Hotel Rwanda is a wonderful historical movie that tells of the account between the Hutu and the Tutsi conflict and the ultimate killing of thousands. Actor, Don Cheadle, portrays the part of Paul Rusesabagina brilliantly. Paul runs a western upscale hotel in Rwanda. He allows over 1000 people to take refuge in his hotel during the conflict and saves many lives. He is very street smart, although being noticeably wealthy; he knows now to bargain to achieve the safety he needs to keep everyone alive. Paul is Hutu and his wife a Tutsi but they are very much in love, despite the turmoil that happens between the two groups. The Hutu’s consider anyone married to a Tutsi, a traitor. Paul risks his life for his multicultural family, as well as the residents taking shelter at his hotel and others. Love melts the lines of separation of culture, tradition and politics.
The children who dance and sing around the pool are aware of the bloodshed around but them but unwilling to give in the joys of life, the simple things that unite all of them together like dance. I believe that the director wanted to show how innocent children are, despite the extreme actions of their elders or the adults; children do not start country conflicts
In America, we are an endless melting pot of dialects. I was raised in North Carolina in the deep country. Most people in my high school spoke with a southern accent; however, social class did affect how one would speak. The students who lived in poor communities did not speak like those who were born into wealth. Often discrimination can be shown to those who speak a certain dialect, one being poor, black, or any person of color. My grandfather lived in Massachusetts for most of his life but he was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was a smart man who was a brilliant auto mechanic but up north, his southern accent caused others to think he wasn’t smart. Being southern and not being smart is a long held stereotype with the northern states and others. I visited Philadelphia for an extended amount of time and met people who would ask me to pronounce words and then say “wow, she’s so southern.” Many people I met would try and “correct” my pronunciation of certain words. I felt that this was pretty demeaning but became sensitive to such topics nevertheless. I know that dialect can be used as tool in discriminating against others all over America in addition to race, sex, religion and social class.
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my grandmother was from alabama (as was my father, who left when he was 20 and never went back) and when she came to visit us in LA where I was growing up, people made fun of her saying "aint" and "y'all" and for the thick accent, and so I grew up sort of thinking that southern accents sounded "dumb." It was a normal thing to think growing up in LA. But these kinds of small prejudices can grow into big, and violent ones, especially when religions become part of the mix.
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