Why is gran torino racist

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All Rights reserved. You totally missed the whole point of the barbershop scene. We were Irish, Italian, Jewish and Black. We teased each other using racial stereotypes. Sometimes we laughed, sometimes we got pissed and had an argument.

We discussed things and stayed friends. I think the Hmong were portrayed positively in the movie as family oriented immigrants. The moral of the movie is that Walt learns to overcome his racism, and learns to love his neighbors.

This is really interesting. I watched the film and thought it was very racist, and I wanted to hear a Hmong perspective or three. This movie could have been so much more! Walt was a fine character — deeply flawed but interesting. Many racists get to know one person or one family from an ethnic minority but continue to stereotype and abuse strangers from that minority. He could have met a Hmong stranger and shown respect and knowledge of their culture.

That would have been a more interesting film than the tired, melodramatic White Saviour narrative. I live in Orange County, California. They say most of them are low-class, poorly educated riff raff who are only interested in what they can steal from you.

I was opposed to this point of view before I moved into Santa Ana. Since then, I have to say the way Clint Eastwood portrayed these characters in Gran Torino is pretty accurate. The dismissal of the racism in the movie is something Vang also noticed and it inspired his NBC News op-ed in February, which connected the response to "Gran Torino" over a decade ago to the anti-Asian racism that has rocketed back into national consciousness since the coronavirus pandemic picked up last year.

And so what the piece was really about, was about that laughter and about the fact that like, there are always people who will say to those of us who find the slurs problematic that we are too sensitive, and we are snowflakes.

And the fact of people always saying this is to diminish us and to also make our issues into nonissues. The year-old doesn't regret making his acting debut in "Gran Torino," but he acknowledges the movie holds up differently in I was someone that grew up hearing those slurs myself like, I was bullied, I was picked on, I was beaten up, I was actually assaulted at some point. I was called all of those words, from the C word to gook to everything.

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