Metaphors In District 9

Both images show restroom signs that are discriminatory or prejudice against another race or being. In District 9, there is evidence of discrimination against the aliens or ‘prawns’. This refers back to the Apartheid Era, where White Supremacy ruled over the nation of South Africa and caused an unfair racial divide. The ‘white people’ were more privileged than the other races and were forbidden to integrate with said races. The above images assist in showing the similar social issues present in the film as well as during the Apartheid Era. They also classify humans as being the ‘white people’ and the aliens as being the ‘non-white people’. This entails that the aliens were forbidden to be in close proximity to the humans as they were believed