I remember a long ago skit from MadTv about this South African white woman during Apartheid who "cried and wept" and wrote strongly worded letters to the local newspaper at the inconvenience of losing her black maid. (As the country went to hell all around her and she couldn't clean her home or fix her own meals.)
I think this was a direct parody of Out Of Africa, which even tho' it is set in Africa has sidelined all of the African people in it to little more than local color.
There's a whole host of these films where the story is supposed to be about the major events of that time and place but all of the natives barely have lines in the movie and are sometimes entirely absent. The only way you would know where the characters are and what's going on is because the white (usually British or American) characters are discussing it.
I blame those darn Tarzan movies.