In the movie The Hangover there are two characters named Doug. One of the Doug's, white Doug is a main character who is barely in the film because he has been missing since the mix up with the other Doug. The other Doug just happens to be black and a drug dealer that Zach Galifianakis meet on the streets of Vegas. The whole movie is basically about how black Doug gave Zach Galifianakis the wrong drugs and it ended up messing up their entire night/next day. When the Wolfpack is trying to find white Doug they get a hint that Mr.Chow might have kidnapped him. When they meet up with
Mr.Chow in the desert because he says he has their friend Doug, he brings Doug out of the car takes the bag off his face to reveal black Doug who is not the one they are looking for. They are "othering" the Doug's based on their race and nothing else. Why could they not describe the Doug's as noncriminal Doug and criminal Doug?
Good use of "othering" in this analysis and great insight into the other ways we can distinguish people based on things other than race/ethnicity. I guess the creators found the racial othering to be the most humorous...
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