About Boycotting Airbender
All of my friends and family (online or in RL) know that I adore Asian culture, media, and history, so I know that some of them/you are a little surprised that I'm following through with the boycott of Airbender. Here's why: there are real issues of racism in the casting
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As I pointed out before, this is really not similar to remakes, since the original foreign films use foriegn actors to connect with their target audience and give the characters the cultural/ethinic background that gives them
I know exactly what you mean with the "race" word--I feel like if I say it my Holocaust & Anti-semitism professor sneezes somewhere in Tacoma.
In this case, though, the production company seemed to be looking for caucasians in particular and other ethnicities, if necessary. If you check out the second link (http://www.racebending.com/v3/backgroun d/caucasian-or-any-other-ethnicity/), you'll see several instances of the casting crew making small, but significant racial biases in favoring caucasians and slighting those of other cultures. (Though, to be fair, they did slight Germans, too.)
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"As I pointed out before, this is really not similar to remakes, since the original foreign films use foriegn actors to connect with their target audience and give the characters the cultural/ethinic background that gives them" identity and depth. The fans of the series expect the characters to have Asian/Inuit/Pacific Islander backgrounds and traditions because that's what the originals were based on. When American film studios remake a film, they change the ethnicity of the main characters to fit their audience, yes, but Airbender's audience is already American. There is no need to change the characters.
Am I making sense any more? I'm too tired to keep up with my own logic (or lack thereof.)
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