Hotel Rwanda Sociology
Running Head: Hotel Rwanda Movie and Text
Hotel Rwanda the Movie with Connection to the Text
Sociology 210-101
Hotel Rwanda the Movie with Connection to the Text
Summary
Based on a true story, this movie involves a Hutu man, Paul, and his wife, Tatiana who is Tutsi. Paul does everything he possibly can to keep his family safe. He works as a manager in a hotel, which later on becomes a refugee camp for the surviving Tutsis. The UN sends troops to help keep the peace but they are forbidden to interfere with the civil war. When they can nothing more for the Tutsis the UN retreats leaving the Tutsis and Paul’s family behind. Paul then goes to a Rwandan Army General, Augustin Bizimungu, …show more content…
In 1916 the Belgian colonists recognized the Hutus and Tutsis as two different ethnic groups. Although they shared the same language, lived in the same areas, and celebrated the same traditions. (BBC News, 2004) In the Belgian’s eyes the Tutsis had more authority over the Hutus. After the Belgian’s gave Rwanda their independence in 1962, the Hutus took over the lands. Over the next decades Tutsis began to escape to neighbor countries and plan a rebellion. The massacre began on April 6th, 1994 shortly after the first Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was assassinated. They are still unsure as to who killed the …show more content…
In this chapter we covered genocide, race, ethnicity, minority group, dominant group, scapegoat, authoritarian personality, discrimination and many more topics that pertain to how the Tutsis where treated. Genocide is the attempt to destroy a group of people because of their presumed race or ethnicity. (Henslin, 2009) This definition describes exactly what happened in Rwanda. In the movie and history the Hutus took on the authoritarian personality, while the Tutsis where forced into being their scapegoats. For most of the movie Tutsis where the minority group until of course they were murdered. Discrimination took place throughout the entire movie. One scene in particular that was evidence true dislike for the Tutsis was when George Rutaganda stated “When people ask me, good listeners, why do I hate all the Tutsi, I say, "Read our history." The Tutsi were collaborators for the Belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have come back, these Tutsi rebels. They are cockroaches.” (Hotel Rwanda, 2004) Seeing how Hutus viewed the Tutsis only shows us why this country began a civil war. This movie’s sequence of events where shown in a pattern-like form. Everything in the beginning foreshadows the oncoming battle between the groups. When the news crew just conveniently shows up to do a piece on the Hutu and Tutsi people, the person watching the movie can tell that something is going to
Hotel Rwanda the Movie with Connection to the Text
Sociology 210-101
Hotel Rwanda the Movie with Connection to the Text
Summary
Based on a true story, this movie involves a Hutu man, Paul, and his wife, Tatiana who is Tutsi. Paul does everything he possibly can to keep his family safe. He works as a manager in a hotel, which later on becomes a refugee camp for the surviving Tutsis. The UN sends troops to help keep the peace but they are forbidden to interfere with the civil war. When they can nothing more for the Tutsis the UN retreats leaving the Tutsis and Paul’s family behind. Paul then goes to a Rwandan Army General, Augustin Bizimungu, …show more content…
In 1916 the Belgian colonists recognized the Hutus and Tutsis as two different ethnic groups. Although they shared the same language, lived in the same areas, and celebrated the same traditions. (BBC News, 2004) In the Belgian’s eyes the Tutsis had more authority over the Hutus. After the Belgian’s gave Rwanda their independence in 1962, the Hutus took over the lands. Over the next decades Tutsis began to escape to neighbor countries and plan a rebellion. The massacre began on April 6th, 1994 shortly after the first Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was assassinated. They are still unsure as to who killed the …show more content…
In this chapter we covered genocide, race, ethnicity, minority group, dominant group, scapegoat, authoritarian personality, discrimination and many more topics that pertain to how the Tutsis where treated. Genocide is the attempt to destroy a group of people because of their presumed race or ethnicity. (Henslin, 2009) This definition describes exactly what happened in Rwanda. In the movie and history the Hutus took on the authoritarian personality, while the Tutsis where forced into being their scapegoats. For most of the movie Tutsis where the minority group until of course they were murdered. Discrimination took place throughout the entire movie. One scene in particular that was evidence true dislike for the Tutsis was when George Rutaganda stated “When people ask me, good listeners, why do I hate all the Tutsi, I say, "Read our history." The Tutsi were collaborators for the Belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have come back, these Tutsi rebels. They are cockroaches.” (Hotel Rwanda, 2004) Seeing how Hutus viewed the Tutsis only shows us why this country began a civil war. This movie’s sequence of events where shown in a pattern-like form. Everything in the beginning foreshadows the oncoming battle between the groups. When the news crew just conveniently shows up to do a piece on the Hutu and Tutsi people, the person watching the movie can tell that something is going to