Word: mayan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humorous diversion of no great moment, but it seems to attempt something more. Shephard gives us two American tourists in a Mexican hotel, confronted with a strange Mexican shoeshine boy who invades their room, rips out their phone, and gives them (and the audience) a brief exegesis of Mayan culture. As the American husband lies dying of dysentery before an absurdly funny witch doctor, the boy assumes his bed, his clothes, his role, and finally, his wife...
...than those bred in low hot places. Coupled with chronic malnutrition, this produces in the Indian an almost complete acceptance and passivity." This deep racism is almost totally unconscious, probably because the whites are somewhat schizophrenic about it, telling you of their Indian blood and erecting statues to legendary Mayan heroes. If the guerrillas have not totally eradicated this racism, it will make forming a rural base almost impossible...