As someone who left the Southern Baptist cult as soon as my brain developed, this is nothing new.
Schmoo
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You might try stepping away from your keyboard and checking for yourself.
Isn't Chani a non-believer in the movie, at least at first?
I was raised in a deeply conservative fanatically religious culture and I put out a sarcastic and "too cool for school" energy a lot of the time. What do you think counterculture is? I remember in the movie she's got a whole social circle of people who are on the same page as her.
Personally I think Zendaya plays Chani pretty well, and her character doesn't feel out of place to me.