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France Nuyen (France Nguyen Van-Nga) on the set of South Pacific | 📷 Don Ornitz | c.1957
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"You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" - SOUTH PACIFIC (1958)
South Pacific received scrutiny for its commentary regarding relationships between different races and ethnic groups. In particular, "You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught" was subject to widespread criticism, judged by some to be too controversial or downright inappropriate for the musical stage. Sung by the character Lieutenant Cable, the song is preceded by a line saying racism is "not born in you! It happens after you’re born..."
Rodgers and Hammerstein risked the entire South Pacific venture to include the song in the production. After the show's debut, it faced legislative challenges regarding its decency and supposed Communist agenda. While the show was on a tour of the Southern United States, lawmakers in Georgia introduced a bill outlawing entertainment containing "an underlying philosophy inspired by Moscow." One legislator said that "a song justifying interracial marriage was implicitly a threat to the American way of life." Rodgers and Hammerstein defended their work resolutely. James Michener, upon whose stories South Pacific was based, recalled, "The authors replied stubbornly that this number represented why they had wanted to do this play, and that even if it meant the failure of the production, it was going to stay in." — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Got_to_Be_Carefully_Taught
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The World's Richest Little Isle (1982)
Few islands in the South Pacific look less promising from the air. Instead of the usual verdant atoll -all palm trees and beaches - the island is more like a chunk of gray lunar landscape encircled by a thin ribbon of green along the shoreline. In the interior, a few sparse clumps of vegetation stand out amid stark rock pinnacles. Clearly, this is not an ordinary tropical paradise.
Yet this unprepossessing island - 26 miles south of the Equator, about midway between Hawaii and Australia and hundreds of miles from anywhere -is the envy of the South Pacific. For this is the Republic of Nauru - all eight and a half square miles of it. Nauru, with a per capita income surpassing that of any oil-rich Arab nation, is the smallest and wealthiest independent democracy in the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/07/magazine/world-s-richest-little-isle.html
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Daily ahhh…. sunset comes to Sugarloaf Rock, in Western Australia's Margaret River region. Been to Margaret River? Rate and review it at http://DestinationRecommended.com/destinations/Margaret-river-region. #MargaretRiver #JustAnotherDayInWA #WesternAustralia #SeeAustralia #Australia #SouthPacific #sunset #coastline #landmark #travel #tourism #review #rating