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Reuters reports that Mayan Indian activists in Guatemala are irritated with Mel Gibson's latest snuff film, 'Apocalypto,' because they say it presents their ancient civilization in an unflattering manner.
Gibson's film, made with Mayan actors in the jungles of the southern Yucatan, depicts the final days of the Mayan civilization, when warrior-kings and priests waged nearly constant war with their neighbors in an effort to capture prisoners for slaves or human sacrifice. Entire cities were destroyed by the wars, and whole forests cut down to build the temples.Indian leaders in Guatemala said scenes of scary-looking Mayans with bone piercings and scarred faces hurling spears and sacrificing humans promote stereotypes about their culture.
It's really getting ridiculous the number of groups (ethnic or otherwise) that whine and cry because someone happens to point out some historical truth that sheds a less than perfect light on their ancestors; especially when the depiction is from centuries ago. There isn't a civilization or ethnic group around that can undergo scrutiny and not have some type of skeletons pop up that show at some point the old gang did some pretty nasty things.
Get over it. Especially when the stereotypes from your current civilization, minus the cutting out of hearts, is just as negative. Central America is still loaded with rebel gangs and neighbors going around killing because they hate each other. Try and develop a civilized society for once in your history.
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hope you're including US, since we have a problem too
It certainly does, we have plenty of examples as well, look at the civil war, that was just as brutal and acts of inhumanity were present as well. Human nature includes us all, and since the Fall of Adam, it hasn't changed.
right.
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