Indiana Jones's Impact On American Culture

Troi Sumbler

Tamar Baskind

English 122

4 October 2017

Today's Impact

In the first couple of movies, Indiana is portrayed as a rather charismatic character, although his motives develop. Indiana is always a, treasure-hunting, idealistic, thrill-seeking, impulsive, highly adaptive, adventurous man. What Indiana Jones And the Last Crusade brings to the table, is a powerful understanding of how and why Indiana Jones is the way he is and the reason for his usually versatile motivations. Indian sets forth on his quest for the purpose of attainment, glory, and reward but in the end realizes a different motivation (Temple of Doom and his return of the stone for the village's opulence, Raiders of the Lost Ark and his realization of Marion's worth

A treasure hunter is a person who, as either a vocation or avocation, searches for sunken, buried, lost, or hidden treasure and other artifacts. This became a trend across the world. In recent years, we have seen treasure hunting glorified in National Geographic, Animal Planet on NBC, CBS, and ABC television as well as on public television. There is no denying the fact that the search for sunken treasure has long been glamorized in the United States. Widely circulated stories of easy riches have met with receptive audiences, yet no major media vehicle has presented the story of the vast irreversible destruction of these indispensable artifacts of the past. Because of these Films such as Indiana Jones make people around the world think its okay to go and just take whatever they want not knowing they are destroying history. For instance museums have historical artifacts that don't belong to them from countries such as Egypt, Iraq and countries in South America. Which means “over time, there was less more to be had”(83) since everything that was rumored to be lost had been found and put on display for the entire world to see. On the contrary Indiana makes it it point to not destroy anything thing. He leaves everything intact and he's not greedy like some treasure hunters. He finds what he's looking for and

Imperialism involved 'the practice, the theory and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan center ruling a distant territory', while colonialism refers to the 'implanting of settlements on a distant territory.' Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960. Between 1945 and 1960, three dozen new states in Asia and Africa achieved autonomy or outright independence from their European colonial rulers. Countries like africa “where all the lands [were] fully occupied… could never [emerge] from poor condition wherein they were born”(82). Even till this day africa is nowhere near fully recovered from years of colonialism and imperialism. In these films Racism, imperialism and colonialism were made to seem okay in these film. Indiana jones is seen as a hero. He doesn't save the treasure for evil. He simply wants to put it in a museum. Unlike the Germans and Russians who want to use the artifact/treasure for the war cause or to instill fear in their people and the