Prejudice And Racism In Samuel Fuller's Film

White Dog (1982) was Samuel Fuller’s last Hollywood film and also the most controversial film ever. The film was based on a 1970 non-fiction novel of the same name by Romain Gary. The film was finished in 1982, but was suppressed in the United States by Paramount Pictures due to the sensitive content about racism. White dog first officially release in America was 2008.
White Dog opens with Julie, who is a young actress living alone in the Hollywood Hills, hitting a white dog with her car during a night drive. After visiting a veterinarian who patches the pooch up, Julie takes the dog home and taking care of it. The dog saves her from a rapist who breaks into her house. Julie and the white dog get along very well. One day, the dog is running
But the necessities of learning have to have the resources of learning and the teacher. I start to realize that the resources of learning come from the society, and the teacher is the person who is in charge of this society. We learn and understand this society through the teacher’s will. However, this society is also built up by the teacher. And thus I wonder how we know the racism we learn from the society is bad if the teacher, who builds up the societal system, is a racist.
Racism, an inhumane disease which sticks on one’s consciousness and soul, spreads the ignorance, hatred and misunderstanding among the people. This disease is too durable to cure. The origins of racism are inequality and differences -- the difference of race, the difference of class, and the inequality in social resources distribution. The more struggle with the differences among us, the more serious the racism will turn into. The conflict will only increase the resistance of racism in our society.
However, racism is not genetic, but more likely an infectious disease. Nobody is born racist. Racism grows based on one’s personal experience, and living environment. People were born and raised in a society where only exists one single standard of right and
The existence of racism is via two ways; one is through the process of education in an environment dominated by teachers; the other one is through an experience of growing-up. It is not a gene or DNA thing, but instead it is an ideology. A dog is color-blind, and it lives in a visual world of black and white. Regardless of black and white, for a dog is the naturally equal. But after a sequence of positive or negative experiences, a dog will prefer the certain color. In the film, the white dog turned into an attack dog or a racist dog is due to the abusive growing-up experience. The white dog is trained and educated to hate and fear of black people by its own white master. The white dog is a production that is made of the fear of the