Why are the majority of people in Zion.....
05-28-03, 09:05 AM
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Why are the majority of people in Zion.....
Black or Latino? Not trying to start anything that deals with race, I don't mind it, I'm just curious. I thought there would be a healthy mix of all types of people but hardly saw any white people or Asians. I saw the rave scene again and noticed a lot of Latina's grinding it up. Anyone else notice this?
05-28-03, 09:35 AM
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Originally posted by pixyboi
Perhaps they were all preparing for the impending war instead of dancing like idiots.. wonder what the great W brothers are trying to say, hmm..?
Perhaps they were all preparing for the impending war instead of dancing like idiots.. wonder what the great W brothers are trying to say, hmm..?
05-28-03, 09:52 AM
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Ha....you know you could take the footage of the rave scene and it would make a pretty good Smirnoff Ice commercial. Well, minus the nippleage.
Ha....you know you could take the footage of the rave scene and it would make a pretty good Smirnoff Ice commercial. Well, minus the nippleage.
MTV's The Real World Zion!!
05-28-03, 09:58 AM
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Re: Why are the majority of people in Zion.....
Originally posted by Mopower
Black or Latino? Not trying to start anything that deals with race, I don't mind it, I'm just curious. I thought there would be a healthy mix of all types of people but hardly saw any white people or Asians. I saw the rave scene again and noticed a lot of Latina's grinding it up. Anyone else notice this?
Black or Latino? Not trying to start anything that deals with race, I don't mind it, I'm just curious. I thought there would be a healthy mix of all types of people but hardly saw any white people or Asians. I saw the rave scene again and noticed a lot of Latina's grinding it up. Anyone else notice this?
05-28-03, 11:48 AM
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Three Theories
1. Maybe it has to do with the last "The One." Maybe the last One was from Miami or something, and he had lots of different friends from different backgrounds. Then, when its time to rebuild Zion, he goes to pick his 23 people, so he picks the kind of people he was either friends with, or simply people he could relate to.
2. Maybe it was the opposite of #1. Maybe the last One was some sort of white supremacist who HATED life in the "real" world, so he decided to send a bunch of "spics and niggas" (in his words, not mine) to a world that he considered hellish.
3. Maybe the W. Bros were trying to show that in the future, there will be more interracial relationships, essentially destroying pure white and pure black races. If you notice, many of the "blacks" were anything but black, they looked like they had some black and some white in them.
Just silly theories, but its fun to speculate.
1. Maybe it has to do with the last "The One." Maybe the last One was from Miami or something, and he had lots of different friends from different backgrounds. Then, when its time to rebuild Zion, he goes to pick his 23 people, so he picks the kind of people he was either friends with, or simply people he could relate to.
2. Maybe it was the opposite of #1. Maybe the last One was some sort of white supremacist who HATED life in the "real" world, so he decided to send a bunch of "spics and niggas" (in his words, not mine) to a world that he considered hellish.
3. Maybe the W. Bros were trying to show that in the future, there will be more interracial relationships, essentially destroying pure white and pure black races. If you notice, many of the "blacks" were anything but black, they looked like they had some black and some white in them.
Just silly theories, but its fun to speculate.
05-28-03, 11:57 AM
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Whites make up only a tiny percentage of the world population—Zion reflects the world, not the United States. Also, dark skin is a dominate trait; overtime inter-racial breeding will produce darker skinned offspring.
05-28-03, 01:40 PM
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audrey, i agree with you. while african americans and latinos may be minorities in the US, world populations may be somewhat equal. Zion looks strange to us because there seem to be an equal number of whites/blacks/latinos/asians. we are simply not used to this, thus it looks like there are A LOT of blacks/latinos.
05-28-03, 01:42 PM
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2. Maybe it was the opposite of #1. Maybe the last One was some sort of white supremacist who HATED life in the "real" world, so he decided to send a bunch of "spics and niggas" (in his words, not mine) to a world that he considered hellish.
2. Maybe it was the opposite of #1. Maybe the last One was some sort of white supremacist who HATED life in the "real" world, so he decided to send a bunch of "spics and niggas" (in his words, not mine) to a world that he considered hellish.
05-28-03, 02:27 PM
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Originally posted by audrey
Whites make up only a tiny percentage of the world population—Zion reflects the world, not the United States. Also, dark skin is a dominate trait; overtime inter-racial breeding will produce darker skinned offspring.
Whites make up only a tiny percentage of the world population—Zion reflects the world, not the United States. Also, dark skin is a dominate trait; overtime inter-racial breeding will produce darker skinned offspring.
Half the world's population can be found in 2 countries, China and India. Not white, but not dark, either.
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Maybe they just got all the extras from LA and that's who showed up.
05-28-03, 04:26 PM
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Originally posted by audrey
Whites make up only a tiny percentage of the world population—Zion reflects the world, not the United States. Also, dark skin is a dominate trait; overtime inter-racial breeding will produce darker skinned offspring.
Whites make up only a tiny percentage of the world population—Zion reflects the world, not the United States. Also, dark skin is a dominate trait; overtime inter-racial breeding will produce darker skinned offspring.
The depth of color and skin pigmentation are also partly based on sun exposure. In theory these people, regardless of race have had no sun exposure for generations. Shouldn't they all look more like each other that standing out as much like black, white, asian, hispanic, etc?
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Black or Latino? Not trying to start anything that deals with race, I don't mind it, I'm just curious. I thought there would be a healthy mix of all types of people but hardly saw any white people or Asians. I saw the rave scene again and noticed a lot of Latina's grinding it up. Anyone else notice this?
Gee, I don't know...I always think that everytime I see "Friends", only backwards: WHERE ARE all the Latinos and blacks? Now that I think about it, how come all the roman soldiers speak English in "Gladiator"? How can you make a movie set in Africa (Disney's Tarzan) without showing black people? How come we still can't show an Asian person in a mainstream movie kissing someone outside their "race" (Romeo Must Die). I guess each of us notices different things according to our own background, eh?
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Gee, I don't know...I always think that everytime I see "Friends", only backwards: WHERE ARE all the Latinos and blacks? Now that I think about it, how come all the roman soldiers speak English in "Gladiator"? How can you make a movie set in Africa (Disney's Tarzan) without showing black people? How come we still can't show an Asian person in a mainstream movie kissing someone outside their "race" (Romeo Must Die). I guess each of us notices different things according to our own background, eh?
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3 observations:
1) Almost no whites in the Rave scene because everyone knows they can't dance anyway.
2) How come the Matrix world has mostly white people and Zion has mostly ethnics.
3) Could NEO be short for Neo-Nazi? If so the ethnics won't be happy about that.
1) Almost no whites in the Rave scene because everyone knows they can't dance anyway.
2) How come the Matrix world has mostly white people and Zion has mostly ethnics.
3) Could NEO be short for Neo-Nazi? If so the ethnics won't be happy about that.
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To make up for us getting shafted in Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Somebody owed us payback!
People don't take this thread personally. The one thing that makes us "Human" is humor.
Had Zion been all White the "Rave" would have become a Moshpit...hence destroying Zion without the Machines raising a finger ...teehee
People don't take this thread personally. The one thing that makes us "Human" is humor.
Had Zion been all White the "Rave" would have become a Moshpit...hence destroying Zion without the Machines raising a finger ...teehee
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To make up for us getting shafted in Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Somebody owed us payback!
But my idea about the "rave" scene is this: When they were hiring extras, everytime a white dude or chick entered the room they were told to "dance like this", and they said "No way!!!! I thought Zion was a cave, not a jungle!!!"
05-29-03, 11:35 AM
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they were told to "dance like this", and they said "No way!!!! I thought Zion was a cave, not a jungle!!!"
they were told to "dance like this", and they said "No way!!!! I thought Zion was a cave, not a jungle!!!"
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as if there aren't enough different races in LOTR.........it's about all races(elves,men,dwarfs,hobbits,ents........etc) coming together to defeat evil. if you think that's racist you're a moron