"Are People All The Same?" Now Available

[Thrashalla]

http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/are-people-all-same


Teaching kids about the evils of racism in a clear, culturally-sensitive manner is a difficult task.  Fortunately for us, it's something the makers of educational shorts from decades past were woefully inept at!  Are People All the Same? takes an interesting approach.  In order to illustrate that people are all fundamentally the same, they go to great lengths to help you differentiate people based on race.  This includes side-by-side comparisons of Japanese and Chinese children (no, really!) presumably so that kids can sort people out, and be sure to only use "pee pee in your Coke" based insults at the appropriate time.

It's a methodology that noted sensitivity expert Mel Gibson would support, saying "It's [expletive deleted]-filled [expletive deleted] [expletive deleted], oh hey there sweetheart."  After building its argument, the film comes to a logical conclusion: a bunch of kids gather for a scream-filled, parent-free birthday party in an abandoned hovel.  Proving that, ultimately, it doesn't matter if people are all the same, because life is a chaos-filled nightmare with no one in charge.

Are People All the Same?  Mike, Kevin, and Bill sure hope not, because that would mean that we are all roughly equivalent to Kevin Federline.


http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/are-people-all-same

[Compound]

I think the answer can be found in the lyrics of Matthew Sweet.

Baby we're the same, when we fail in each others' eyes
Baby we're the same, so you should not be surprised
When I swear to you, I never told you what to do
Maybe it's me. Maybe it's you

[PontifexPrimus]

I can only agree, it's bizarre how this short tries to say that all humans are basically the same and in the same breath turns around and claims that "sometimes we need to group people together" and that we can do that along such natural lines as lack of fear of heights or whether they are good at keeping rhythm.

Racism is a perfectly natural thing, kids, just pick a prejudice and apply it!
Oh, and learn to distinguish between Japanese and Chinese, because... well, no reason *cough*internmentcamps*cough*.