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Stereotype of the Month Entry
(6/27/03)


Another Stereotype of the Month entry:

A couple problems with this cartoon:

1) That Indians bury people in stereotypical "burial grounds" rather than in cemeteries like the rest of us.

2) That Indians would dig in the middle of a house rather than make some other arrangement. The implication is that the Indians are insensitive, implacable, perhaps fanatical about their religious beliefs. The singleminded look on their faces reinforces this implication.














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