[ SECRET POST #1962 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1962 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]


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03.
[Community]


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04.
[Big Time Rush]


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05.
[Avengers]


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06.
[The Decemberists]


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07.
[Tim Minchin]


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08.
[The Lizzie Bennet Diaries]


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09.
[Community]


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10.
[The Hunger Games]


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11.
[Nell: The Day Before]


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12.
[Devil Survivor]


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13.
[Homeland]


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14.
[Pippin]


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15.
[Portal 2 & Left 4 Dead]


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16.
[The Avengers, 30 Rock, Psych]


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17.
[FFX]


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18.
[Mad Men]


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19.
[Legend of Korra]


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20.
[Faust: Love of the Damned]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #280.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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Technically correct: no one is Asian because they lack an Asia. On the other hand, all the major cultural hallmarks of their world are very obviously derived from real-life Asian culture (and a few other non-white ethnicities/nationalities), so that would suggest the characters' phenotypes would probably be so as well. In which case, trying to say they aren't "Asian" is just a petty semantics game.

[(Anonymous)]

My point was that the universe of ATLA has its own distinct races. Were they based on or inspired by rl races? Sure. But saying "Aang/Korra/Zuko/whoever is Asian" is inaccurate. They aren't necessarily going to look EXACTLY like an Asian person. There's no such thing as "Asian". They certainly aren't "white" either, for the same reason. They are...whatever they are. If you want to say that "Fire Nation" and "Water Tribe" etc. are the names of their races, that's fine. (I always just thought they were all one race with small individual fluctuations in skin tone, and with eye colors that varied by nation because of genetic distribution. But I hadn't given it a ton of thought.)

I guess my overall point is that we should focus on representing the characters as correctly as we can, and we don't need to pull irl race-wank into it because...we just don't. We can talk about color and accuracy without going there. None of this takes place in any kind of parallel Earth.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

You are absolutely right, and I wished more people realized this.

[(Anonymous)]

FYI the creators will sometimes reveal real life people who inspired a certain character's look. Most of the time, they're Asian.

I get the feeling that some of the anons posting have never watched atla/lok though.

[(Anonymous)]

Er, yeah. I did say "inspired by". My point stands.

You're probably right about the second bit. I've seen all of both series (well all of TLA and what's come out of LoK...bout to go watch today's ep in a couple hours when it airs!) but I bet a lot of people are just in it for the wank.

[(Anonymous)]

And is Mike DiMartino not the inspiration behind the titular character? He's clearly not Asian.

Is it so impossible to believe people who post here and don't think the characters are Asian have, in fact, watched the show(s) and still reached that conclusion?