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Race related names

posted 11 years ago by scuffpuppy
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Is it perfectly normal to refer to, and name the black chap as Negro, and the Asian as Indian? At one point during the beginning of the film, Ponce was told to "Go stand by the negro" to which then he was only ever called "Negro". Odd considering everyone else actually had a name.

I've watched 'The Squad' twice now, and love foreign/international cinema, but fck me this was a really, really boring film.

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[–] tedeadite 11 years ago

Indian was not Asian;he was a local (Columbian) indian.Thats why the others thought he knew so much about the magic charms about the place.

[–] Tristan!-2 10 years ago

Negro is not his real name, it's his nickname because of his colour. South Americans are quite blunt in referring to black people as "Negro", "Mulato", "Negrita" etc without necessarily it being a racist attack. When translating into English it's hard to comprehend because the English language takes a far more politically correct approach, and such epithets are, quite rightly, frowned upon. Not so in South America, where a black person is not going to take the same offence as in the English-speaking world. It's all in the tone.

[–] pundit-1 10 years ago

How about Indian or Indio in Spanish?
That's also not a racist term?
In this movie it seems the Indian guy was looked down upon because he was Indian.
Seems to me he was treated like dirt because of this.
From what I've heard and read Indians or Native Americans are actually discriminated
heavily in some parts of Latin America.
Which goes to show that racism,discrimination and bigotry is present everywhere else
in the world.

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[–] omendata 8 years ago

Hmmm the name Ponce really got to me never mind the Indian.
I guess they dont know what a ponce is in Scotland in Columbia.
lol

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[–] kaiserblade 9 years ago

So Luis Suarez was innocent after all!

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[–] ammillzy (1) 5 years ago

Hell yeah it was boring. Never did explain their insanity or what happened with the prisoner girl. Well acted but horrible movie