Controversy and conflict
Main article: Scouting controversy and conflict
Since the inception of Scouting in the early 1900s, the movement has sometimes become entangled in social controversies such as the civil rights struggle in the American South and in nationalist resistance movements in India. Scouting was introduced to Africa by British officials as a way to strengthen their rule, but came to challenge the legitimacy of the British Empire as African Scouts used the Scout Law's principle that a Scout is a brother to all other Scouts to collectively claim full imperial citizenship.
[69][70] More recently, Scouting organizations that do not allow the participation of atheists, agnostics, or homosexuals have been publicly criticized.
[71][72][edit] In film and the arts
Young Life Scout, Indiana Jones (River Phoenix) finds the "Cross of Coronado" in
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
As Scouting has been a facet of culture throughout most of the 20th century in many countries, numerous films and artwork use the subject.
[73] It is especially prevalent in the United States, where Scouting is tied closely to the ideal of Americana. Movie critic Roger Ebert has mentioned the scene in which the young Boy Scout, Indiana Jones discovers the Cross of Coronado in the movie
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, as "when he discovers his life mission."
[74]The works of painters Norman Rockwell, Pierre Joubert and Joseph Csatari and the 1966 film Follow Me, Boys! are prime examples of this idealized American ethos. Scouting is often dealt with in a humorous manner, as in the 1989 film Troop Beverly Hills and the 2005 film Down and Derby, and is often fictionalized so that the audience knows the topic is Scouting without any mention of Scouting by name. In 1980, Scottish singer and songwriter Gerry Rafferty recorded I was a Boy Scout as part of his Snakes and Ladders album.[75]
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