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Nothing's changed

posted 12 years ago by fubared1
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Nothing has changed much since this film was made, especially the Americans attitudes towards Arabs. In fact, that has gotten worse.

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[–] mistermojohoho 11 years ago

Unfortunately, your statement is true. Arabs especially have it rough here in the US after 9/11. So sad.

And the Native Americans, which wasn't covered in the documentary: that's the one flaw I found with this great film.

[–] PsychoDingo 11 years ago

it's a film about immigrants. why would native Americans be part of it?

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[–] PoppyTransfusion 10 years ago

Americans attitudes towards Arabs

I thought about that when watching it because this was filmed many years before 9/11.

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[–] swturswt 8 years ago

Today this film resonates more than ever since its release 30 years ago. With Trump's vociferous anti-immigration, anti-Muslim, anti-anything-foreign campaign, this film made it clear that indeed nothing's changed and perhaps even got much worse than 1986.