South Pacific's Most Controversial Song

Long running broadway shows are not set up to be changed by the people that made them. One of the most dramatic moments in south pacific is when the show's romantic lead, french ex patriot, emile de bec, reveals that he is a widower and that his late wife was a polynesian woman with whom he had several children. Even in the eighties, it was like, what? You've got to be taught to be afraid of people whose eyes are oddly made and people whose skin is a different shade. I barely remember this song from the production i was in. But listening to it now, the thing that jumps out at me is the way the lyrics casually