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How many movies have Hollywood made with tons of lies about other countries in Asia, Middle East, South America, andAfrica

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Jul 19, 2022Liked by Marc Cenedella, Author

Read "The Forgotten War." "The Last Stand of Fox Company." For a novel, "The Marines of Autumn." My F in L was at Pusan, Inchon, Chosin. A young Marine. If Truman hadn't stopped our forces from severing the Chinese supply lines at the Yalu, the North Koreans would be as productive , prosperous, and free as the South Koreans. It's an epic tragedy that we didn't use our power to free that country entirely. China's conscript peasants were slaughtered by the tens of thousands. Pork Chop Hill is probably the movie to see. I don't know why we allow ourselves to be humiliated like this.

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Let’s not act like America doesn’t do the same thing guys

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So tell me how many US movies show the US troops raping and pillaging in Europe and Asia not to mention the multiple time that large non military and non strategic population centers were specifically targeted killing countless men, women and children. It may be propaganda but so are our movies as well. Now i love the US and the military but, we are far from being able to judge others.

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Uhhh, have you ever watched "The Green Berets"??? It's literally the exact same thing as you're referring to with the Chinese movie, except it's Americans slaughtering Vietnamese by the car, truck, plane and tankload. How can you be so completely one-sided and biased?? It's ridiculous. Yes, the Chinese movie is a lot of propaganda. And the US has done the exact same thing, in hundreds and hundreds of movies. So our movie industry is private industry technically, who cares? We don't actually have a state run movie department, but that doesn't mean our propaganda movies don't serve the exact same purpose. Ugh, your article is infuriating. For a guy who writes such great inspirational articles about finding jobs, connecting, networking, etc, this article you wrote is extremely disappointing. Unsubscribring now from your newsletters now that I see your true colors...

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Jul 19, 2022Liked by Marc Cenedella, Author

Good post, Marc. I knew personally the American marine who led his men 50 miles to the safety of naval evacuation (John Chafee), and his No. 2 (James Brady), who would go on to be a prominent journalist. I am sure that you know that Chafee ended his career as a US Senator.

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It’s really this type of article that makes me lose interest in this platform to read any other articles. What a pity.

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Jul 19, 2022Liked by Marc Cenedella, Author

It is sad that China has to be so tragically opposed to the US. They think they are pulling one over on us by being so absolutely hateful. The truth always comes out though. In the end they will pay be burning in hell for all their evil. We the proud and true Americans that we are will never take China,s spew. In the end China hurts China and their own history!

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Jul 19, 2022Liked by Marc Cenedella, Author

This is a civilization that practices slavery, has no hesitation about cracking down on dissent or discriminating against non-majority populations, and regularly threatens Taiwan. I'm not sure why a film like this would be "beneath" what passes for Chinese dignity. More curious is the whataboutism here, with people ready to throw rocks at the place that does NOT demand that foreign films be censored and does NOT have its version of a Uyghur population and has NOT, thus far, rounded up people's pets for euthanizing. China doesn't have to worry about the US; we're doing a good job of tearing down the place from the inside.

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Jul 19, 2022Liked by Marc Cenedella, Author

Right on the money, as always, Marc.

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I want to be clear; we want to put pressure on China for putting lies in a movie that we should be aware that is fake or not true but we are not doing anything about our own legislators passing bills to remove the history of racism, slavery and obscure how slavery black history is taught because it makes they like the way it makes America look today. Isn't that hiding the truth? We don't want to be lied on but America gets to lie and hide the truth as much as its wants. Got it!

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You have little clue. I lived and worked in China. They have one goal ( everyone there) get by hook or crook all the world's knowledge and know how combined with all the world's resources to ( ultimately) take over the world! They are winning!

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While the CCP government is disgusting, the American government is not much better. Your yourself need to wake up from your propaganda-induced coma.

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You write this article like you’ve never seen a Western with native Americans portrayed as savages. The white washing of world history and the perpetuation of non American/White stereotypes (ie Indian and Asian people as super smart but asexual, African and Native Americans as aggressive and ignorant, Europeans as either super villains or pompous aristocrats and Middle Eastern people as terrorists) has been going on for hundreds of years and continues aggressively today. The irony is that Americans massacred, rapped and pillaged the Native Americans, Americans enslaved people on US soil for hundreds of years, America has committed more terrorist acts and killed more innocents than any nation on the planet (we gun down more of our own citizens than the next hundred countries combined). The Chinese made a movie that made Americans look bad…that’s not a very difficult thing to do my friend.

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Hey "New Yorker" - I'm a NYC resident and remember all too well when the NYT, New Yorker, and NY Review of Books ALL stood up for the "courageous 9/11 attackers" and apologized for the US role in various world affairs. How's that working for you now (re Ukraine, et al)? And I'm a progressive lib democrat veteran of decades of protest. We have enough blowhards to snuff out on the insurrectionist right without such intramural squabbles. Wake up, grow up. We live in an age of lies, and have presumable learned how to appropriately evaluate our entertainment & political industry.

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this movie is really good actually.

also doesn’t the military ensure their propaganda standard is met when “private citizens” Hollywood makes a military movie?

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