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Mississippi Burning Film Analysis

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Mississippi Burning is an American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker in 1988. It tells abbout two FBI agents, Rupert Anderson and Alan Ward who are assigned to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in the state of Mississippi in 1964. The investigation is faced with hostility and backlash by the town's residents, local policemen and the KLu Klux Klan. The Klu Klux Klan is the name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration.(Wikipedia). In the terms of intercultural communication, the film resonates as a genuine reflection of racism as well as ethnocentrism.
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In the threaten letter of the KKK writes “Now listen, communists and niggers and Jews. Tell all your buddies to spread the news your judgment will soon be nigh. As the lord in His wisdom looks down from on high. Will his battle be lost by mixing the races? We will beautiful babies not ones with brown faces. Never, never, never, I say because the Ku Klux Klan is here to stay” Secondly, they love blindly where they were born because they believe that their culture is more advanced than those of others. They worship Christ so they do not accept those who reject Christ. They worship Anglo Saxon capitalism so they do not accept those who follow communism. For example, in the politic meeting, a representative has a speech to white Mississippian community that “I love Mississippi. They hate Mississippi, they hate us because we present shining example of segregation. These northern students, with their atheist, community bosses that have our community on this summer with the wish to destroy it…if every single Anglo-Saxon Christian one of us stands together…” Or, this representative also has speech to the media “We do not accept the Jews because they reject Christ and their control of international banking cartels are at the root of what we call communism today. We do not accept papists because they bow to a Roman dictator. We do not accept Turks, Mongols, Tartars, Orientals now …show more content…

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