While I also saw Harry Potter over the weekend, it is not the movie that most impacted the way I think about international relations this weekend. I know I'm about a year behind everyone on this one, but I just saw Avatar last night for the first time. What an appropriate movie to see while we are discussing the discovery of America and the treatment of the native peoples in class! The movie was horribly sad and pointed out some serious concerns about the environment and the treatment of the "other."
My biggest concern after watching Avatar is the way the native peoples are treated wherever the others go. We seem to think we can just take everything from them and kill them off like they aren't even human. In the movie, their connection to nature is substantial and beautiful, but the military men don't care. They plow through to get whatever mineral they want and have no care for what could be someone else's home. In the process, they kill many people and succeed in destroying their home. Why does the world do this? Why must it always be about us and never about them (unless it's beneficial to us)? Why is the world so realist?
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