White saviour complex. Have you noticed it in movies and among white feminists and SJW's?

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I ask because I've started to notice a theme within Hollywood movies in which the lead charcter is a young pretty strong independent white woman who with a non-white side kick saves people of color from an evil white supremacist or solves all their problems. Even this trailer the Nutcracker and four realms is the same.

White saviour complex. Have you noticed it in movies and among white feminists and SJW's?

KAF87 · Accepted Answer

This is a loaded question to be sure.

I think at home (within first world countries) there is a drive to volunteer. The desire is to fix things for the underprivileged and try to undo some of the inequality for minorities.

Some of these people do have a savior complex. They like the glorified pat on the back. They enjoy the attention of being a good person. Others though, just realize they have life good and feel compelled to give back.

Over seas, you have glory hounds, good PR hunting exploiters, and well meaning charities. It may seem like the west ignores African culture and activists, and that may be true. However it is hard to combat things like large scale over population. Backward technology. Poor education. Lack of infrastructure. Corrupt governments.

There are lots of positive solutions, they are just difficult to implement. It is also made harder by a lack of trust.

As for movies, I feel like having a minority or just non-white side kick is an attempt to be more multicultural. I think there needs to be more movies that the lead rolls are non-white. However we are getting there (just too slowly).

I see this change strongly in video games. (old games had bimbo female characters, and all white men) (L4D1 had 1 female, 1 male black, and 2 male white) where (L4D2 has 1 male black, 1 female black, and 2 male white)

dantetheexplorer · Accepted Answer

Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, Avatar, Blood Diamond, The Help, and many more. I've not seen The Great Wall, so I'm not sure about that one.

It's almost as if non-white people cannot save ourselves. White people enter into different non-white cultures, and they immediately get a level-up: they become more Native American than Native Americans, more bad-ass samurais than bad-ass samurais, more Na'vi than the Na'vi.

Jgirl532 · Accepted Answer

Yeah, this is definitely a theme I have seen in movies. We really need some great, empowered POC main characters. I think the worst example of the white savior complex is a Spanish soap opera I watched called La Esclava Blanca. It means “the white slave.” So, if you can’t already tell by the name, it definitely had that theme. She tried to save the slave family and village that took her in throughout the entire movie, and although that seems like a nice plot from the way I said it, it is clear that it is more based off of a white fantasy of what slavery was.

Leafpool2 · Accepted Answer

It's an incredibly common and incredibly ugly trope. It also usually makes White people the main characters in stories that are supposed to be about the stuggles of non-white people.

Jackblue · Answer

I am no fan of social justice warriors, but would you prefer white people did not help people of color, it saves lives either way even if you have convinced yourself these people are somehow arrogant. As for photographs of whites with children in third world countries, believe me it is often the children who want to take those photos, when I was in India in a study abroad program (nothing to do with philanthropy), we were touring a temple and a high school was on a field trip there and several students wanted to take a photograph with me, I simply obliged.

Berethor · Answer

Feminists are part of SJWs, and racism of low expectations is even more common among SJWs, especially when they turn a blind eye to islamic valence and sexism.

Cammy137 · Answer

Don't watch them then! I mean I disagree with your point entirely but even if it were the case, so what? Don't watch them.
Hollywood doesn't have to pander to whatever you consider to be acceptable and entertaining. It is possible that people enjoy a certain type of film.
I don't see the issue!

shephardjhon · Answer

YES. Definitely a thing.
Meanwhile about 300 years ago: aeon.co/.../why-american-revolutionaries-admired-the-rebels-of-mysore
by the way, the black or native friend and/or mentor is also a trope.

Good or bad, treat us like people. iZombie and Silicon Valley are good examples.

mynesterion · Answer

Hollywood will save the world one special interest at a time and if their bank accounts are fattened in the process who are you to question. How dare you?

Slave-man · Answer

I like female supremacist feminist women who want to humiliate and swear at me.

RussianHacker · Answer

(((Hollywood))) is always pushing these fuckin' retarded memes.

RationalMale · Answer

Looking at any city in the USA with a majority black population, it appears Africans indeed need a white savior.

LongShlongSilvr · Answer

Oh Jeez us. Not everything is about race. It's a movie, they cast people who they think will help sell the film.

AynonOMouse · Answer

White people shouldn't help non Whites. That would be much better. :)

Bluedream13 · Answer

lol yeah paving the road for white sjw idiots to think they are smart

MarketData · Answer

We have to give them something in return for stealing their country's natural resources.

bubble_tea · Answer

I like the fact that white people who want to do good things with their money and time are ridiculed by hedonists for having a white saviour complex. I suppose it's the English term for Gutmensch.

ElloElloElloEllo · Answer

blindside, kingkong, empire,

Anon-ymous1 · Answer

So... this is nothing new. At all.

Anonymous · Answer

LOL at this.

White saviour complex. Have you noticed it in movies and among white feminists and SJW's?

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