Prejudice And Racism: Film Analysis

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This was an interesting documentary on racism. Unfortunately it is still an ongoing problem in today’s society. I was not a big fan of this documentary. I believe it relied a lot on showing gruesome images, using the same ones repeatedly, which I believed to be unnecessary as the message was clear in the first place. Beginning with the British settlers in Tasmania, the documentary showed that racial superiority was used for gain (The settlers took the land as if nobody had already lived there and the Indigenous people just a problem they needed to rid). If there was nothing to gain by killing the Aborigines, they most likely wouldn't have killed any of them. In another scenario, the British who took slaves from Africa to work for them on the