West Side Story

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29 April 2009

West Side Story

Introduction

In the context of 1960s , chain gangs and gang wars are prevalent between Latin and White American adolescents . For the reason that the White American adolescents despise and discriminate against the Latin Americans (particularly the Puerto Rican race , the Whites resort to bully the minorities and they even ostracize the Latin Americans by depriving them of their rights to use recreation places like the street 's basketball court , food houses , and the like upon believing that

the White Americans are the most superior and the better race than the Latin Americans and in so doing , the White Americans perceive and believe that should not mingle with those inferior and minority race (such that of the Latin Americans as an example ) who were different from them (Brian 2005 . Moreover , in this movie directed in 1961 by Jerome Robbins Robert Wise entitled : West Side Story , the conflict between the two opposing races namely the White and the Latin Americans was further described through presentation of some prevailing scenarios that the Latin Americans unjust encounter and experience with the White Americans

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The West Side Story is a movie adapted from Broadway 's musicale . It was an adaptation of the infamous Shakespearean play , Romeo and Juliet (UAPI 2009 . Starred by Natalie Wood as Maria ' Richard Beymer as Tony and George Chakiris as Bernardo ' the rest of supporting characters of the film includes : HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Russ_Tamblyn " \o "Russ Tamblyn...