Hindu Narrative

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I had enrolled into an intro to film studies class (yeah, one of those 'optional compulsories', it looked like less homework and I'm all for that). We had to watch some cowboy movies for it. Not the best hours I ever spent, certainly. But what can ya do?

'Little critter' is used a lot where I live, and <i>never</i> in a low mean-spirited way.<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I am glad you get so inspired by cowboy movies that you incorporate the lingo of these movies in your daily vocabulary<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->No need to attribute statements to me that I never made. Who said I was "inspired by the cowboy movies" to use 'little critter'? I referred to those films by way of explaining the origin of the term and its use in today's generation (where I live, leastways).

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Most of these movies justified white men’s massacre of local Red Indian tribes & in fact glorified such killings making such killings in these cowboy movies sound/appear as perfectly normal…The underlying message these movies tried to portray was horrible….<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yes, I do know, having watched a few myself.
Of course they could never get a real native N American to play the role of the 'evil Injun', so European-American men (with blue eyes too! - where's them brown contacts when you need 'em, eh?) put some red paint on their skin to add insult to injury and then imitated the stereotype Americans had created about the native N Americans.


On the more pleasant topic of native Americans in a <i>positive</i> western setting, in Europe, whenever people play cowboys and Indians, everyone wants to play the native N Americans and only the losers get stuck with the cowboys. The cowboys are known as murderers and so the 'Indians' always get to win.

Germans have long been enamoured of native N Americans, as they had several old tv series of Germans playing heroic native Americans harassed by European settlers who they fought valiantly against and still tried to make truces with. (TV series complete with German women also dressed up as native American women who play the heroines.) The makeup was far more subtle and the series were highly respectful even if possibly romanticised (why not?).
Some very fond memories of my childhood watching those kids series <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Of course none of it compares to the pleasure when seeing real native American actors in movies.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->'hey you post no.71' instead of politely calling or referring to them by their userids<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Never said such a thing as "hey you post number".
I do regulary do "Post x:". Not going to change, I'm afraid.

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Husky has made a passing reference to "villagers" in one post in a sentence whose meaning is not very clear to me - I took the meaning to be "his experience with villagers".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->My whole paternal side is from a village. They were what I referred to as (half of my) family. The non-family members of the same village are those whom I referred to as villagers.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Now that again is a sure-fire sign of a person who is out of touch with things within India. Nothing wrong with being out of touch except that opinions won't count for much if they are unreal.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The "Indian villager" who gives people a warm fuzzy and bring recollections of old Hindi movies<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I don't know about Hindi movies. I do know about a few villages in my father's state.... So easy on there.