Monday, May 5, 2014

Extra Credit: Movie Post: Slumdog Millionaire

  • When watching this movie, I realized that there was a lot of discrimination against Jamal and Salim
  • In the movie, Jamal and Salim's mother was killed by Hindus for being a Muslim so the boys were forced to be homeless and roam the streets.
  • The caste system is also shown in this movie. Jamal and Salim were considered "Untouchables" which means that they were of the lower caste.
  • Jamal was a server at a call center which meant that he was a low class kid. Then later when he signed up to be "Who wants to be a millionaire", when asked what his job was, everybody laughed at him. The host of the show then didn't believe that he was getting the answers right so he called the police to investigate which is also every ethnocentric.
  • When Jamal got a call from an English woman, she becomes mad because she doesn't like his accent

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