{"id":1784005,"date":"2022-12-22T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784005"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T15:16:20","slug":"avatar-sequels-cultural-appropriation-of-indigenous-cultures-triggers-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/avatar-sequels-cultural-appropriation-of-indigenous-cultures-triggers-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAvatar\u201d Sequel\u2019s \u201cCultural Appropriation\u201d of Indigenous Cultures Triggers Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Favatar-sequels-cultural-appropriation-of-indigenous-cultures-triggers-activists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784005&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/original_Screen_Shot_2022-12-20_at_19.41.04.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/avatar-director-james-cameron-says-testosterone-is-a-toxin-men-must-terminate-from-their-system\">James Cameron<\/a> is facing the wrath of so-called activists who are accusing the director of &#8220;cultural appropriation&#8221; in his new blockbuster, &#8220;Avatar:\u00a0The Way of Water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning director faced similar criticisms in 2009 with the release of Avatar, alleging that the film perpetuates the &#8220;white savior complex&#8221; narrative and appropriates <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-trudeau-claims-canada-place-of-free-expression-as-indigenous-protestors-call-him-a-colonizer\">Indigenous<\/a> themes and imagery, reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/avatar-faces-calls-boycott-over-accusations-racism-1768217\">Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There have been calls for a boycott from Native American influencer\u00a0Yu\u00e8 Begay, who claims that the movie appropriates culture &#8220;in a harmful manner&#8221; to satisfy a white man&#8217;s &#8220;savior complex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do NOT watch Avatar: The Way of Water,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;Join Natives &#038; other Indigenous groups around the world in <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/woke-snl-writers-boycott-show-over-dave-chappelle-appearance\">boycotting<\/a> this horrible &#038; racist film.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;No more Blueface!&#8221; she adds, calling back to the term used during the release of the 2009 film that compared the representation of the franchise&#8217;s &#8220;Na\u2019vi&#8221; people to the racist imagery of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/previously-unseen-photo-justin-trudeau-apparently-in-blackface-eve-election\">blackface<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cameron himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/james-camerons-45-page-declaration-proving-avatar-was-his-idea-2012-12\">stated<\/a> in 2012, in response to a legal claim that he stole the idea for Avatar, that\u00a0the film was &#8220;a science fiction retelling of the history of North and South America in the early colonial period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Avatar\u00a0pointedly made reference to the colonial period in the Americas, with all its conflict and bloodshed between the military aggressors from Europe and the Indigenous peoples,&#8221; the Director said. &#8220;Europe equals Earth. The native Americans are the Na&#8217;vi. It&#8217;s not meant to be subtle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many have pointed out that the film features a predominantly white cast, with some notable exceptions being\u00a0Zoe Salda\u00f1a, a Black Latina actress, and Cliff Curtis, who is of Maori descent, as well as Emmy-nominated actress\u00a0CCH Pounder.<\/p>\n<p>A tweet from self-described &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/greg-gutfeld-charlie-kirk-slam-toxin-of-wokeness-at-tpusas-americafest\">woke<\/a>-critic&#8221; Kathia Woods regarding the prevalence of white actors was widely ridiculed by Twitter users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At some point we gotta talk about the cultural appropriation of Avatar and white actors are cos playing as poc,&#8221; Woods tweeted. &#8220;It&#8217;s just a mess and so not necessary &#038; no amount of visual effects\/CGI is gonna erase that. Bad Lace fronts\/Dry synthetic braids. Jesus fix it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mocking that followed was relentless, to the point that Woods made her Twitter account private, a move she has since reversed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;James Cameron didn&#8217;t even try to find native blue people to play these roles smh,&#8221; Andrew Kerr of the Washington Free Beacon tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Only nine-foot-tall blue aliens can play nine-foot-tall blue aliens in movies, apparently,&#8221; joked radio host\u00a0Dan O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Newsweek highlights an Indigenous Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/milesofanarchy\/status\/1604221099763535872\">user<\/a> who says that &#8220;Avatar is good,&#8221; adding that &#8220;The movies are versatile enough for the general public to swallow the big pill of talk around colonization.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cameron is facing the wrath of so-called activists who are accusing the director of &#8220;cultural appropriation&#8221; in his new blockbuster, &#8220;Avatar:\u00a0The Way of Water.&#8221; The award-winning director faced similar criticisms in 2009 with the release of Avatar, alleging that the film perpetuates the &#8220;white savior complex&#8221; narrative and appropriates Indigenous themes and imagery, reported &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1784008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10642,7811,6962,4091,10643,5458,9597,11186,3819,11187,11188],"class_list":["post-1784005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-cultural","tag-avatar","tag-the","tag-activists","tag-appropriation","tag-bongino","tag-cultures","tag-indigenous","tag-report","tag-sequels","tag-triggers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}