I've also got a bit of Asian in me, the Indian kind, as it's a part of the sub continent. 4rd generation for the British commonwealth, 2nd for Canadian specificallyBurnouts3s3 said:
I suppose I can understand that.
I hazard that in a lot of cases the chose for an actor is more to do with hiring pool. there's a large amount of white people here, so statistically there should be a disproportionate amount of good white actors.
I'm not sure the statistics but a minority is such because they do not make up majority numbers. Also it might also have something to do with the structure of white families, a lot of them are middle class, rather entrenched after generations of primary and secondary industry that they can safely have been lean towards the arts. While a lot of 1st generation Asians head into the high paying industrial and engineering jobs, which is likely why Asians are making more then white people on average but owning less.
So no, I doubt it's a societal problem, same group preference is mixed with the highering pools, it's why bollywood doesn't have a large amount of white actors nor does Chinese and Japanese cinema. Or how Russian cinema would likely have a lot of slavs, etc etc. On top of that I remember a treatise on the white straight male. the treatise in-question suggested the reason why the WSM was such a well used character was because in our culture it hold no baggage, is infinity disposable and no one would be offended by his culture being mocked, etc,etc.
Yes i agree, that writing of a character trumps everything, good writing believable characters and the like is great. There is however, an important caveat: same group preference is a thing. While remain to be a thing and will forever be a thing until instinct is curbed, even if it can extent to include every human being, there will be us, and the other.
Further more they hope to play of the large cultural brushes. Further more there's a certain want to aim for the lowest common denominator, to assist selling something and while i have no idea how well it works (it can at least seem to work well enough enmass as miserly multi-million dollar industries hold to this idea) there is no arguing that the lowest common denominator of a race/culture, is the race/culture itself.
Thought is never wrong.
You can sure as hell be offended, if tumblr has taught me anything anyone can be offended by anything.
The real questions are what power do you have to change it, should you change it or are there more important things to be concerned about.
In truth, you have as an individual little power to change something that is the consequence of millions of years of evolution, both culturally and genetically. And any solutions you do manage to impose will do nothing produces the dramatic opposite which is just as harmful.
I suggest in my most stoic musings to leave it be, and live without it. Or if it is really something to dedicate your life follow this motto "we create the community we deserve."
Also drop the privilege thing, people like to use it a lot these days but they have committed perhaps the greatest intellectual sin. creating something that already exists. We have always known that no human has ever been born equal, man people get and have quirks, problems based on time of their birth, the cultural, economically, physically, so on and so forth. But you have to make the best of what you have. Unless you want everyone to be the same all the time, then such arbitrary academic theories such as privilege has no end result or solution. It's academic theoretical masturbation given educational value without thorough or reason. It is a good idea when untested like social justice but when you examine it you understand that it is by nature cancerous and broken.
