That part is a little unclear. I guess this is some kind of equal opportunities tribe which employs white people too? That said, the tribe is clearly meant to be ethnically Polynesian/Indonesian/Moari, and the chieftan giving the history lessons about "her people" is ambiguously brown. Still, I don't think it undermines my argument. It's still some foreigner coming along and appropriating someone else's ethnicity and becoming their leader.poxyrom said:I'm assuming that you were talking about racism against the african people. However, the tribal guys were white. So I'm not really sure what you're referring to. Yeah, the whole "magical chanting natives" thing is a bit cliche, but it's not racist, and it's been done a million times before.maninahat said:Let me get this straight: a sexy "exotic" priestess asks you (a white westerner who only turned up the other day) to use her magic and lead her tribe of chanting natives (the kind with tattoos, bones and loincloths, naturally) against some evil, modernised corperate types? Oh yes indeed. It's only a trailer, so perhaps this won't turn out to be Dances with the Last Avatar 2.
And yes, it's racist when it appears in Avatar and Last of the Samurai, though a little more subtle (Avatar thankfully left out cannibalism and rooster blood).