Wednesday, September 28, 2011

This Is America

I got “Mao’s Last Dancer” from Netflix on recommendation from daughter number one. This is a great story even if you don’t like ballet.

Chinese dancer Li Cunxi is an exchange student to the Houston Ballet. He is in for cultural shock. At a disco, one of the ballet company makes a statment that he doesn’t like the President (Ronald Reagan). Li immediately becomes apprehensive that a government agent might over hear him but is told, “This is America”.

It’s an America we are fast losing where freedom of speech means you can’t say anything I may find offensive. The movie clearly shows two different worlds. Those that believe in an egalitarian state will be in for a shock if only they will open their eyes and minds.

Freedom is living in peace and without fear. There can be no fair and equal, but that’s for another post.

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