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#7 Samoa Joe
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To look at the growth of the WWE's stance on ethnicity, one only needs to compare Samoa Joe's theme with that of a similarly built Samoan wrestler in the WWE's recent past, Umaga.
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Umaga has tribal drums, speaking to his primal, uncivilized nature, while Joe's is entirely unconcerned with his background or the differences in his culture to a mainstream audience. Umaga's theme is about his otherness because of his ethnicity; Joe's theme is about his personality, one that says he's about to kill you. It also feels like a lost Godzilla theme song and that's cool too.
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