Diversity in Full Metal Jacket 9/28/15

In the movie Full Metal Jacket, we see the portrayals of young men going into the Marine Corp and what they face with the struggles of surviving training, getting brainwashed, also objectifying women with themes of rape and prostitution, leading to men with weak mindsets doing they they would not do, but are affected by the peer pressure of those around them. As the movie progresses we see the intimidation of the training by their General Senior Instructor who's introductory to them all at camp is "There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers.". As he looks upon each of these men in their bunks, he chooses and nick names people based on their ethnicity, appearance, and background. Most of these men are young, filled with adrenaline to go out and kill, regardless they do not know how they will be associated as, in war and outside of it.

Throughout Full Metal Jacket, the Vietnamese women are proposed as prostitutes, the men in the Marine Corp are given prostitutes and all have sex with them and do not care for them at all. Its the pressure some of these men have from killing, living with each other, and having no women around, having to prove themselves to each other of what a real "man" is, gets to their heads. The jokes in the film conjugate African Americans, Mexicans, and Vietnamese, where a joke is being told sch as "Hey, what does it take to stop 5 black guys from raping a woman? A basketball". The fact that the men they have to fight side by side it have to prove themselves, take advantage of omen, and laugh and make jokes of rape, is absurd. Its unreal of how this actually has played a role in history throughout time. Both men and women have had to show their role in society just so they would not appear as odd or different, many are forced to do things that they aren't because of the people around them, no matter race, background, religion, each in their mind "must have to" follow the way each role is supposed to just to fit alongside with others, without even having a sense of right or wrong.