I enjoyed this film.


I was a bit reluctant to watch a film with such a low user rating, but I was really pleasantly surprised. I really enjoyed that this film was devoid of racial stereotypes. No heavy statement or message just a fun situation. It brought me back to earlier times in Southern California when growing up in a mixed middle class neighborhood where the only color in our "Hood" was green. I actually grew up thinking racism was dead, until I started traveling outside of my neighborhood. It was refreshing to see a story about people just being people. I wish we could all just go back to just being Americans again. White people are either bleeding-heart liberals or Rednecks. Black people have to be so street. Hispanics have to be so ethnic or Cholo. Asians have to be isolationists. Muslims have to be so extreme. Why can't people assimilate and just be Americans.

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Well the problem is right there in your last sentence:

"Why can't people assimilate and just be Americans."

I understand what you are saying, but what you are saying is in itself the problem. Without cracking any jokes about the shortsightedness of that comment,

"Why can't people just be people?"

should be the question. The answer is we've never been one people... (unless you count our ancestors from 200.000 years ago before they walked out of Africa and populated the rest of the world, but I guarantee they had warring tribes even then). It is something to strive for though. However it makes for crappy movies and no sales in Holywood terms.

Everyone loves stereotypes :D

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