As I said in the first part, I will be talking about the descrimination in the mini series, The 60's. The types of descrimination I will mention here are: against races, more specific, against African Americans; Against ideologies or ideology; And against women.
Lets start with the latter. Descrimination against women is a persistent bastard right now and I can give one cause. The adults of the last generation. For decades and for generations, kids have been raised in with the thought that boys shouldn't hurt girls, in an attempt to prevent this from happening. Well if girls hurt boys, what happens then? I believe that they didn't think about that. I know I am not making sense in showing you how this has to do with anything, but think about it. That special treatment that was given to girls may have caused some envy in little boys at that time. Causing them to be mean to girls, and that old line that "they're just kids", that line blinded many adults, causing ignorance towards it. Later on, when they're adults, these things that we tried to prevent, happen.
Anyways, moving on with the topic. Descrimination against women is represented in the film by the white men family. There are two girls affected by this. First off, is the white men family's second son, P's love mate, Pi. Her thoughts on things were cast aside by the leader of a revolutionary group that was against the war. Second is the white men family's mother, who was very submissive towards her husband's decisions, thoughts and opinions.
Moving on to the descrimination against ideologies. The one that's discriminated was " stopping the movement of USA troops into the war". The war in Vietnam didn't involve the USA, this one involved itself in the war. The idea of stopping the movement of troops to the war came from the fact that it wasn't justified. They never gave a reason as to why those men were sent to kill or be killed. Yet there were those that stood against that idea, for their pride as patriots.
Lastly, descrimination against African Americans. This one wasn't as shocking to me as the others. The film doesn't even cover it that much. But, it has a relly strong story to represent it. The event that was vivid in that time was Martin Luther King Jr's peaceful movement to protect the black men. Yet, the story in the series was a side story for the whole thing. The thing about it is that it included the differences in thoughts about how to follow the movement. One was the violent gangs that were moving around causing havoc. The other one was the peaceful and harmless comfrontation. Like always, the innocent die because of what the guilty did. That is why I said it's a strong story. Anyways, racism was everywhere in that society at the time, as if that's not clear enough.
So, thats pretty much all I had on this series. I liked it a little, it was enjoyable to watch with friends. I wouldn't watch it alone, sincerely speaking. It was filled with so many clichés that making jokes about it was worth while. Anyways, that was all I had. Thanks for reading! Angel out.
You say it is a “could’ve happened” type of fiction; it is interesting how the events in the miniseries are well put to seem as if the events did/could’ve happened. Surely, many of the scenes we see in the miniseries did happen one way or another in different parts of the United States in the 1960’s.
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