This week’s blog post is a response to a comment left on my blogpost from last week; Fear of the Machines. Which mentioned another way in which Hollywood tends to depict A.I, namely as caring and nurturing, pointing to the movie Her (2013). coincidently, this also came up in some of the articles I read after making the blog post from two…
When I first came to the Netherlands, I was afraid that I won’t be able to communicate with the locals as I only speak very few Dutch. I was convinced that Dutch citizens, especially older people, would not be able to understand my English. However, there was a surprise waiting for me. Almost all people I talked to, no matter if young…
No, this title is not referring to your laundry. It does refer to when people for instance use a white person to represent a black person in a movie. Or to use the classic Wikipedia description: “Whitewashing is a casting practice in the film industry of the United States in which white actors are cast in historically non-white character roles or in…
