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Why do black people feel obligated to yell at the screen during movies? I tested this theory by watching the same three movies at theaters in black and white neighborhoods and there is definitely some truth there.
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Name : Brian, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 32, City : Philadelphia, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Executive, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper class,Brian, This is a very good question. I myself have experienced that same observation. Being a black person who does not yell or talking during the movie, I have to state that it is environmentally related. If “everyone” around you is conforming to…(whatever), you will find yourself falling into that same pattern. Now, you may find yourself saying, “well, I would not do that if I lived there”. And you would probably be right. You’re a 32 year-old Corporate Executive college graduate. The 4 years of college and a strong “Corporate” environment has shaped a lot of your behavior. That coupled with your values that you may have regarding “talking or yelling” during the movie, will probably keep you away from doing that. But, the people in that movie theater have different “shapers, and values” regarding the issue. For example, I use to attend a very “reserved” Black church. Everyone was quite, no one would yell out “amen” etc. When I attended that church, I “conformed” to their style of worship. When I left and started to attend another, this church yells, shouts, etc. I found myself joining in. Though many people say it’s a “cop-out”, environment plays an enormous part in shaping who we are. Now, its not to say this is who we will continue to be in the future, but it is an obstacle that we ALL have to LEARN to deal with.
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Name : Audrey, Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 36, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : Diversity Consultant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,Did you notice how many white people were yelling at the movie as well? When will you white people start understanding that we all are individuals with our own minds and own personality. You always claim how smart you are as a group but at times you don’t dumb as hell use your commond sense don’t believe everything you watch on T.V.
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Name : phya, City : washington, State : DC, Country : United States,Do you really have this much time on your hands? The fact that you visited white and black theatres three separate occassions each to confirm your ignorant theory baffles me. You must not have much of a life. Maybe the black theatres you went to consisted of lower class blacks. The white theatres you went to maybe were middle to upper whites, its more of class than anything, not race. But get a hobby, because it’s obvious you have too much time on your hands.
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Name : Jones Ingram, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 27, City : Washington, State : DC, Country : United States, Occupation : Real Estate, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,When most black people engage one another in conversation or some other type of verbal interaction, we tend to use a ‘call and response’ type format. This basically means that I show my feelings (aggreement, disagreement, pleasure, discomfort, anger, disbelief, etc) by supplying a verbal response (i.e. say what, no he didn’t, you can say that again, etc) or some type of physical gesture (a pat on the arm, a slight shove, rolling the eyes). This is even true at church services (Amen, tell it preacher). This behavior is said to originate in West African cultures in which people were taught oral histories by this method. This behavior just carries over into other facets of our lives and many other cultures do not understand it.
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Name : phende, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 25, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : Teacher, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I think this may be a cultural anomoly. I’m black and readily admit that my people will talk to a movie screen. It’s even a joke to us! I think as a culture we are just very verbal. We tend to express ourselves more loudly than some cultures. To us it’s part of the experience and a way to share it as a group. We’re interacting in our own way. It is not meant to be disrespectful, just the opposite actually. To sit emotionless to us is a bit rude. This is particularly true in less affluent segments of our population. It’s just part of our experience.
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Name : Tressie Cottom, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Age : 28, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : copywriter, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,In a way, you are correct. I’ve gone to the movies and heard other blacks yell at the screen and answer cell phones. I’ve also seen young white teens do the same thing. So I’ve drawn the conclusion that it is not a ‘black thing’, it comes down to who is respectful of others and who isn’t.
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Name : Darrick, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Kansas City, State : MO, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Why do white people feel obligated to listen to only country music? I tested this theory by hanging out with a lot of caucasians and it proved to be true. For having 4 years of college experience, Brian definitely proves to be a DUMB ASS….
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Name : valerie, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Age : 21, City : stonington, State : LA, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,This is just a guess, but maybe it has more to do with the neighborhood they were raised in than their actual ethnicity? Pre-dominantly black neighborhoods are usually lower class, no? My guess is it has to do in with the way they were raised, or maybe the number of movies they’ve seen in their time. One control you could use to further this experiment of yours would be to watch those same three movies in a hispanic or poor white neighborhood.
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Name : Ember25354, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Phoenix, State : AZ, Country : United States,I am African American, and I would have to agree…in most cases. I actually stay away from a theatre where there are alot of black teenagers going to see the same movie. I am the exception because I love movies and I hate it when anyone talks.
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Name : Todd, Gender : M, Age : 27, City : Houston, State : TX, Country : United States,Brian-You are right.Much like old folks,the black folks not only talk among themseves during a movie,but they talk to ths screen.It is much like church at a predominantly black church.It appears that since elderly white people do the same thing,or at least talk loudly among themselves,this behavior can be adopted by others
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Name : richard29751, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Mormon, Age : 55, City : wpb, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,hmm.. in the predominately white neighborhoods, were there no audible conversations during the film? In any case– in african-american culture, ‘call and response’ is a frequent staple of african-american based entertainment and community dialogue, where interaction with the crowd is encouraged… in traditional stage theater (of course, out of the european tradition), protocol demands that the audience be silent until the final curtain.. that behavior more or less translated into accepted behavior at the movies.. but in black communities, that type of ‘collectively silent’ entertainment experience never really existed.. people feel just as comfortable expressing their ‘opinions’, at whatever volume, to the screen as if they were at home watching Television or listening to radio.. not everyone feels the same way about this– plenty of black folks don’t like to hear the chatter, either, especially from the younger crowds.. it’s just something you either get used to, patronize another theater, or rent videos.. 🙂
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Name : christopher32110, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Catholic, Age : 30, City : detroit, State : MI, Country : United States, Occupation : clerical, Social class : Lower middle class,they are brought up in a culture that encourages that sort of offensive behavior. This behavior is seen in all walks of their lives. Even educated blacks cannot tolerate this.
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Name : Sammy-Mfdvr28283, City : NY, State : NY, Country : United States, Occupation : Owner,black people and other minorites are just naturaly loud people its just how we are. Our way of injoying a good movie is getting into it and one way we do that is by yealing at the charactrs and laughing loudly(cant be helped) and we just get a lil carried away sometimes. We like to feel into the movie. If a movie is boring we well make commintaries about it to make the rest of the people luagh and injoy there time eventhough the movie is boring. I think it just boils down to we just get a lil carried away and a lil to into the movie at times. Most people just need to chill and injoy your not going to be able to quite a whole croud of minories and when you try your just gona make things worse. so go with the flow and just have fun.
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Name : Dianna Wallace, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 19, City : Kansas City, State : MO, Country : United States, Occupation : college student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Being loud is considered to be a defense mechanism for blacks. Depending on what movie it was, blacks hate to see ignorant things taking place in a movie, such as the super saver white chick going behind the bush knowing something is there….yes that would set a black person off. I mean it simply depends on the movie and the situation. However not all blacks are loud or think that it is necessary regardless of what is going on in the movie to be loud
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Name : TP27583, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Age : 28, City : RAEFORD, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : MILITARY, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,
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