Curing colds? Excuse me, I spend my time jumping in front of bullets hurtling towards towards small orphans. Actually Ben, I would be happy if people talked more about genocide , although I suspect that it is not nearly as controversial as issues of health care or movies, which is why genocide is not discussed as much.
However, as I mentioned above more people are focused on the issue of Hollywood than on health care, which is ignorant. But I have cured sepsis and cancer. Thanks Emma, my life would not be complete without your respect. Actually I have provided more than enough information on my posts for an intelligent person to figure my identity…..
I do care about racism towards all races including Caucasians, I simply said it is much less of a big deal here in America. I SEE racism in this movie, and it may be a much much much less extreme example than the internment camps, but it still needs to be fixed. I think the men and women and children who survived the internment camps would want their culture to be respected and would want to be represented by their own media.
Dan and Alice — seriously? Ron, 8 years later but relevant …I agree with you that there are several types of racism existing in several cultures. However, I believe what Sarah was attempting to bring light to was that there was yet another form of racism that clearly exists in the entertainment industry. Certainly, you are aware of that as well.
She is correct, in pointing out that media especially visual media has a tremendous impact on our cultures and especially our youths. I am not surprised by M. Indians in Bollywood are slowly whitewashing their own films. More and more white actors No, not Eurasian , but white. Recent actors have been English, white, Icelandic, German and Australian cast as Indian women, all decked in Indian jewelery. There are only one or two Eurasian actors.
This kind of thinking is part of our culture. I dont like it and I boycott such movies even before I boycott Arizona…. Raj, with so many absolutely beautiful brown and light skin Indian people…that is so sad.
I know my comment is late, so I hope things have turned for the better in Bollywood by now. People just have to ask yourself, how many Asians are there really in starring roles?
How many young Asian kids in hollywood? Just look at the history of Asians that were replaced by whites. The evidence is just there and only racism can only make a person ignore that.
Again, people have to answer these questions and look at the history and lack of Asians in hollywood. Patrick, all of the racists and KKKs are clapping for you right now. Say whatever, you guys all have the same opinion. I notice that there are very few Asians playing professional basketball, even fewer than there are in hollywood. I guess the NBA is just racist. Oh, wait, I guess the fact that we are shorter and we historically do not have a lot of interest in basketball might have something to do with it.
Has it ever occurred to you that there are fewer asians in hollywood because fewer asians are interested in the entertainment industry? Ron, The original Avatar:The Last Airbender is a wonderful animation, with a tremendous story line of heart rendering relationships, overcoming challenges and power struggles.
There is no racism in this movie. There is no way that anyone, ever, could make a movie with such diversity without someone, somewhere calling foul.
Why do you insist to create racism by demanding that different races should be treated differently? That Indians, Mexicans, African Americans etc.
Is that what you really want? Listen, the film may be diverse with people of all sorts of ethnic backgrounds but the film is racist. Not because of it having all sorts of backgrounds, but because these characters were originally ASIANS which were not the same ethnicity as the actors.
We should boycott the film for this reason. Night wanted to be a diverse film as you said, then maybe he should have wrote his own film not based on a popular television show. Only then, he will receive praise for his work. There is no racism in this movie? These are Asian names. Then why the cast is white while their names are Asian?
Its fucking retarded. Those are the names of other water tribes characters, obviously based on Inuit tribes. I am not against white people since I am a white European, but when I saw The last Airbender those Caucasian actors really looked completely out of place. Everybody in the souther village was Asian except Katara, Sokka and their grandmother. Yeap, a Caucasian princess named YUE. I believe by now they must have realized that decision was not very smart.
I hope there will be no more sequels of this abomination, and if they do made a sequel I will not pay to see it. My name is Ron, which is short for Ronald. I was given that name at birth because my father wanted to honor a close friend with the same name. Ronald is not an asian sounding name. In fact, it is Scottish. Yet I am Asian. That is because your comments are idiotic. Ron, many of your comments are offensive Just because you are of Asian descent does not give you license to insult other people because they speak out against unfairness against Asian or other people.
Sasha Pohle-Anderson. Sasha, I have a new point to make. Also remember that as the one making accusations of racism, the burden of proof is on you. Spot has four legs. Spot is a dog. All dogs have four legs. I was talking about the movie, not the series. This is so stupid. Thanks again for your comments. If you can point out hypocrisy on either of our parts, I welcome it.
Gee USAA girl. I thought so. I have been writing out of principle, not pride. Sasha — read on, I promise to be nice. Thank you, and goodbye. Haha, oh dear. And Yes, this comment is quite late, but I am still a big fan after all of these years! Therefore Aang should be Chinese. Katara should be a Malay like a Filipina. The Earth Kingdom should be African.
Arthur McArthur. And the Slumdog Millionaire casted as Zuko should be Sokka. But M. Sounds quite silly when you put it in a different context, does it not?
We should boycott the movie because it was terrible movie. That is all. Do you have children? Do you want them to have role models that look like them on television? If you think this is so stupid why bother commenting? I thought it was hilarious.
But I have cured sepsis and cancer Oh. After this comment, I am not replying to anything you write. I agree with Dan. Over the past few weeks, people have been posting photos on social media comparing themselves to animated characters , so when year-old Angel took a few selfies and noticed a resemblance to Princess Yue from the show Avatar: The Last Airbender, she tweeted the pictures.
On Twitter, she got love from her followers, but then her photos went viral. Her selfies were shared by a fan page on Instagram, and the responses were entirely the opposite. She said, "It made me wonder why the response for Black cosplayers or dark skin Black girls are so different from others.
She said, "I got a lot of nice comments but I also of course got harassed and insulted by some people, which is to be expected. Together they held signs and tried to gain visibility, but with the lack of bodies their impact was minimal. Although enthusiasm for the cause is seemingly boundless in online forums, it has been difficult to get even the most vocal members of the group to put a name to their face and show up for a local event. Despite this rocky transition to both more politicized issues and on-the-ground activism, the community has nevertheless slowly shifted their orientation.
The group is now much more focused on general casting and racial representation issues. This could be related to the fact that it is clear that they have lost the battle to change the casting of TLA, so it makes sense to move forward onto current topics.
The group was immediately very supportive of efforts to protest this casting, and one of the coordinators wrote a letter condemning the decision in the name of Racebending. These issues are all loosely related to the topic of discrimination in Hollywood, with the group remaining most dedicated to the question of who is allowed to play what role.
For instance, there is one post about whether or not the American actors in Invictus have the right to play South Africans and another about whether or not Johnny Depp is the right actor to play Mexican hero Pancho Villa. Reactions are mixed, with participants expressing opinions on both sides of the issue. Despite the diversity of responses and topics covered, Racebending communities continue to provide a way for these important and complicated questions to be asked, and if a resolution is reached, for the community to take action in some form.
From Participatory Culture to Public Participation. Search this site. About Us. Video interviews. Peter Packet Challenge. Invisible Children. Tribute is Not Theft. I feel that every one of the few shows which achieve this for Asian Americans must be protected. And yet, I find it hard to reconcile my love of ATLA with the sobering fact that the show has still been transmuted through the White imagination of White creators, White actors, White producers.
Its empire of White profit still rests upon centuries of culture that belong to someone else. Asian cultures are celebrated. Asian people are not. How is this a world free of Whiteness? American culture likes to identify its heroes and villains; Koniezko and DiMartino are neither. This show is not theirs. This culture is not theirs. ATLA, revered for its political themes, may be further analyzed as a complex case study of White entitlement to everything and the exploitation of the East.
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