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CONSIDERATION

Now that I have panned the movie, I should say that, in its ham handed way, Sayonara has its heart in the right place. It may, at the time, have made a great deal of impact.

It was made only ten years after WWII and feelings were still very strong against Japan.

My father, whose ship was hit by a kamikaze, held a lifelong prejudice against them and used all the hate words.

It is easy to scoff now about the film's double standards and inherent racism but, I suppose, they should get an E for effort.

They show the cultural side and the hero does get a war bride despite all the opposition.

Now, it is brown people who are getting the racist going over.

People from south of our border and, of course, your average person of middle eastern extraction.

It is always something.

Hate is portable.

This image is a work of art itself. It is called "White Liberal Mugs".

It'll work for the two Sayonara posts.

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