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Offensive Stereotypes?

posted 9 years ago by Haskiez
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I was reading through a few things on Kangaroo Jack for an English assignment and I came across an article titled, Jerry goes into "damage control". It was a short piece about Jerry O'Connell (Charlie Carbone) going to Australia to calm down the talk of negative Australian stereotypes in the movie. After reading this, I went back and watched the movie my self and even wrote a short piece about Stereotypes in film in general.

I think there is a negative stereotype shown in Kangaroo Jack. I think that the directors could have been a little more sensitive when presenting a different culture to a predominant American audience. What do you think? Is this a problem in Kangaroo Jack? Is it a problem in film in general? I just want to see what everyone else thinks.

[–] stonekeeper_ever 8 years ago

What negative stereotype? Except for kangaroos in Australia?

[–] davidparr-12867 8 years ago

Kangaroos are both a wordwide and Oz symbol in Oz in a positive way rather than negative stereotype.