Animeniax, still having trouble with the term called "acting".
OMG! A Russian playing a German. A German playing an British. A British playing an American. An American playing the world! The travesty! The Mexican playing a Puerto Rican. The Puerto Rican playing a Dominican. The Dominican playing a Spaniard. A Spaniard playing an Italian. An Italian playing a Italian-American. Get me off this shit!
Seriously man, everyone does it. It's acting, and suspension of disbelief comes with it.
Being pasty white has its comforts I suppose, but for those of us of culture and color, it's a bastardization to continuously see one Asian people represented by another for the simple fact that Hollywood (and westerners by extension) doesn't care enough to differentiate between the people of the cultures depicted to bother. We're just all one mass of yellow people, no matter that each has its own language, own culture, own history, etc. For shame!!
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I, for one, am appalled that Mel Gibson keeps getting cast in movies as an American.Originally Posted by Animeniax
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
Your analogy would make sense if there was a fundamental difference between your average white American and your average white Australian, which there is not. You can't say the same thing about your average Korean and your average Japanese, unless you're racist or just ignorant.
Yeah but I don't care about everyone else, just the Asians. Some white guy can take umbrage with whites being miscast and misrepresented.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Again, it's that you just take issue with the Asian when this happens with everyone, hence why I gave all those examples.
And the Japanese and the Chinese don't do the same? Without looking too much into it, you can just take anime and how Americans are portrayed in there... with a VA who doesn't know shit about English. Yep, it sounds bad, and we complain, but this is not a Hollywood issue as you're trying to make it out to be.
And also again, I don't see you complain about a British portraying an American, etc. So, would it be accurate to call you a hypocrite or am I mistaken there?
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