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The Native American Controversy


Why would you decline to accept an award which you rightfully earned and deserved? I know he was trying to protest how Natives were being depicted in film, but it is kind of hypocritical for him to take a stance against that when he is a non - Italian actor who is playing an Italian mobster in film. I love the Godfather and I am not saying that the movie was stereotypical of Italians. I am even half Italian on my mother's side from German and Austrian. What I am trying to say is I don't totally get his point and don't know what he was really trying to accomplish.

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The Indian thing was nothing more than his obsession of the moment. As for playing an Italian while not being an Italian--so what? If parts could only be played by actors of the same nationality or ancestry as their characters it would become ridiculously difficult to cast anything, and the best talent would have to be passed up in order to fulfill PC quotas.

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Ironically., turns out she wasn't even Native American. Just an actress playing a part.

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