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How film uses zombies to represent our fears
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The current generation seems to be obsessed with zombies. We have TV shows like The Walking Dead, video games like Left For Dead, and more zombie movies than I can count.
In most cases, at least in film, zombies are often a metaphor for a cultural fear such as violence, disease, or natural disasters.
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Some historians believe the modern day "zombie" first appeared in the culture of enslaved peoples in Haiti. The decomposed monster was not a slave to another human, but to its own flesh.
Haitian slaves believed that only in death would they be free to return to Africa. Those who took their own lives would not be rewarded with this afterlife, instead forced to walk the Hispaniola plantations as an undead slave for all eternity.
The zombie myth was eventually absorbed into the voodoo religion, with Haitians believing zombies were corpses that had been reanimated by shamans and priests. It was this history that influenced the very first zombie film, White Zombie, which was released in 1932.
As time passed, filmmakers started to use zombies to represent fears like natural disasters and disease. Consider the 28 Days franchise. Even though the main characters are rescued at the end of the movie, the plague continues. The problem cannot be undone and the world is forever changed.
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Two religious cults that changed history
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Religion has played a major role in the course of human history. Take Donghak, which I can almost guarantee you've never heard of.
Donghak is a combination of shamanistic and Taoist ideals, which taught that all humanity would be united in Heaven regardless of gender, wealth, or social status.
The religion was started by a Korean intellectual who claimed to have met the ruler of the universe while wandering through the mountains. In 1894, a Donghak adherent started a revolt that caused the Korean government to ask for military assistance from China and Japan.
The revolt was quashed, but tensions between Chinese and Japanese troops set off events that led to the First Sino-Japanese War and the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910.
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This one starts in Africa, when a young girl belonging to the Xhosa tribe claimed she met a mysterious man who told her that the dead would rise if the tribe killed all their cattle.
The girl's uncle, a popular spiritual leader, said that killing the cattle would cause the dead to rise and drive away the British settlers, who at the time were pressuring the Xhosa tribe to get out of the way.
The Xhosa began to slaughter their cattle, but the dead did not rise. The resulting famine weakened the tribe and killed 40,000 people, allowing the British to move into the area with little resistance.
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Did you know... The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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