Racist Theme?

I've heard people call Big Trouble in Little China racist - and then have Chinese people (from all over the world) tell me how much they love the movie...

Oh please, what kind of research is that? Chinese people DO NOT love that movie. I can't remember the last time an Asian site, film or otherwise recommended that piece of crap.

But back to AH, on the DVD version I have, the production notes say Ramis & Co. were "trying to comment on the segregation in that time period", so yeah they WERE commenting on the BLack/White relations, but does it work? Obviously people don't agree on this!

It is weird when you see the writers, producers, & director (who are all white) create the scene in the bar where the Black people are all menacing, drawing knives and threatening the White guys for their dates. You can't deny it. And like a previous poster asked, I'd also like to know if any Black people have commented yet on this.

1. I find it difficult to believe that that was all they taught at these colleges (BTW why are anthropolgy and sociology ridiculous?)
2. It is a bit of an in joke for a broad student Hollywood comedy
3. Surely the Emily Dickinson reference (which I took to mean a prim exterior but a raging sexual beast within as per La Dickinson's poetry (not that I am an expert) would mean they were more likely to be studying literature
4. Look at the cut in the film - nothing is definitive (and I think they didn't mean it in a malicious way, more a comment on the ecstatic nature of pop music and its adherents)
5. It is not funny at all - There seemed to be a lot of comments (my guess is from white people though of course I wouldn't know) that appeared to be trying to say it would be stupid and over-sensitive to suggest it may be racist, and worse still, that if someone did think it might be racist that they did not think this genuinely, but out of some kind of imposed idea of political correctness. This is a reaction that from the 80s, when consideration for the felings of those who were not white heterosexual males first really came onto the agenda, I have always disliked, not least because of its laziness. I don't think that all of the things that are expressed as criticism and described as PC are right, but I do think that people who express those views deserve to have those ideas considered, not the easy label.

Presumably you are a woman - most women I know have had their views on males, or a male, or a male stereotype of women rubbished at some point as PC tosh, or feminist rubbish without considering the actual basis of the criticism. If there is a cogent critism of that view - fair enough. But enough of just using "it's PC rubbish" as a kind of joker that trumps all cards.

P.S. I like the idea of an all woman college studying just anthropolgy - I once had an idea for a novel that was very similar (we don't have things like that in the UK).

Also I a sure anthropologists in the 60s no longer referred to prminitive cultures - in women's colleges or elsewhere. Actually I am sure you taking the mick as nothing in your post made sense.

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