What it ultimately comes down to with Avatar

Okay this is my last post on Avatar...for now at least.

What this movie comes down to racially is a white guy and his view and experience of other cultures different from his own.

That basically is emulating Cameron himself, who, as a white man can only look at the world from the lens of a white person.

Sure, Cameron had to live up to the White savior stereotype with this movie, but if you think about it, Cameron can never be an expert on what it truly is like to be a person of color in America. He could hire all the people he needed to get insight. He could have gone to the people themselves and asked if he was spot on, but he would have missed the essence. The movie would have still been told from the view of the white person looking in.

Maybe that is why he made the movie from the perspective of a white dude looking into the world of these aliens...because he could at least "experience" that.

We often as minorities say we hate it when whites speak for us, or worse act as if they can understand our plight. We all know better because of their white privledge. So should we be upset that Cameron is using his own perspective as a white guy looking in as the basis of this movie rather than from the perspective of the Navi (aka the racial minority)?

So that leaves one to ask the question, should Cameron have even attempted this movie at all, considering there are so many movies already out there just like it?