John Wayne

I was watching a old John Wayne Cowboy movie with my roomate today and was kinda shocked by the overt racism in it. In the kind of movie that many people regard as pure representation of American Culture it is really obvious in it's racist material against Native Americans. Many times during the movie the Native Americans were called savages and red men. They were also shown as a race of people that was only concentrated on the massacre of the cowboys. At one point John Wayne's charector is attacked by 4 Apache and just fights them off with a knife. At the end the women asks why he had to scalp all the Apache, he respnds that if he didnt they would have killed him and raped her and stoled her son. The Natives were shown as unintellegent and not organized, as if they just surived by simply murdering people in the west and stealing their goods. At the end of the movie, after a huge battle sequence, the cowboys rejoice that soon the calvary will arrive in the west and all the Apache will be wiped out. american culture :)