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Stereotyping In Little Big Man
In the film Little Big Man the reversed stereotyping was really interesting. It really showed us both sides of the story in my opinion. In the other movies they only show the whites point of view. That the Indians were people just like everyone else. They had a sense of humor, desire, embarrassment. Now like I said it showed us that the Indians had a sense of humor and desirer in the movie. The reason I put these two together is because in the movie they go hand and hand. An example of this is when Little Big Man has sex each one of sunrise's sisters. He makes little funny remarks about each one after he has sex with them. Staring with the youngest sister, thinking she would be the quickest, he was happily mistaken. Then he has sex with
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