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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a bible thinking Midwest town with ZERO minorities. This could have been my town. [/quote]

I grew up in the Midwest in a town of about 10,000. There was one Black kid, two Asians and one Latino in our high school. [/quote]

I felt like I grew up in Footloose, just in northern Ohio, population 3000. We had exactly one black family in town. It would have been weird to have added minorities to that movie.[/quote]

+1, I grew up in a Footloose-esque town and it really was very white. To be accurate they might have included a handful of black or hispanic kids, but part of the point of the movie is how homogenous and close-minded this tiny town is. The whiteness and the lameness is sort of part of the point.

Now, the way the Chicago is portrayed in John Hughes movies, and his treatment of Asian characters? Yikes.[/quote]
Excuse me, but not everything white is “lame.” What is wrong with some of you people? [/quote]

I never said that everything white is lame. I said that part of the point of Footloose is that the town, like my home town, was very homogeneous, close-minded, white, and lame. Like those are distinct descriptors. Calm down.[/quote]
Would you ever describe a majority black town as “homogeneous, close-minded, and lame?” [/quote]

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