lol "Brown people don't have blue eyes. Better make these brown characters white."Originally Posted by Munsu
I realized my mistake in calling them "Asian" since they are obviously meant to be Native American, and corrected myself. That doesn't change the issue. If a character is not obviously black/asian/indian, then he or she is neutral and white. That is the accepted reality that you are describing.
I won't respond to anything else you said because it's exactly the type of hand-wringing and nitpicking I was referring to. It takes a lot of cognitive dissonance to ignore the fact that the show is deeply rooted in Asian cultures with a primarily non-white cast because you want to excuse that a bunch of white kids were cast as brown characters because they were defined by Shymalan to be "ambiguous".
I won't derail any further. In the end, it's not a crime against humanity, but rather a disappointment. It's indicative of the state of Hollywood that Asian/brown actors could have been cast in a role that didn't paint them as caricatures, but were ignored in favor of marketability.
Maybe they were dicks about it, but if I were your friend I'd try to convince you not to financially support this kind of whitewashing.
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