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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-09-10 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2078 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2078 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2012-09-11 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm so sick of American's obsession with making everything white. Let the cast be natural. Let some non-whites play. Stop making your movies boring.

(Anonymous) 2012-09-11 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Question: if 63% of Americans are white, how is it unnatural for the majority of the cast to be white? Most American movies have POC characters but they don't have high numbers because that doesn't reflect the average ratio of Americans. If you break it down on averages, for every 6 white characters, there will be 1 Hispanic and 1 black. For every 18 white characters, there will be 3 Hispanics, 3 blacks, and 1 Asian. For every 30 white characters, there will be 5 Hispanics, 5 blacks, 2 Asians, and 1 multiracial person. You see where the problem is? And that's the WHOLE country, not various areas.

You can't ask for something that's not within that country's parameters of natural and call it natural. It's like asking Norway to have more than three or four Middle Eastern characters in every movie. That's not shooting for natural- that's shooting for a multiculturalism that doesn't exist.

It's a nice ideal, but it doesn't reflect the demographic reality, which is often a consideration for American movie makers.

(Anonymous) 2012-09-11 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
somehow no one ever brings up the "natural" and "realistic" arguments to the swaths and swaths of pure lily white media that have been in existence in America since we started making movies. you know what? yeah, it -might- be unrealistic to have a movie with all-black or all-hispanic characters, but even if we made -all- of our movies like that for decades it wouldn't approach the sheer number that have been all-white. i can't really bring myself to care about "realism" when it gives minority actors a leg up on an already racist as fuck movie industry.

(Anonymous) 2012-09-11 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
Good luck finding many casts whose main characters are even close to 37% nonwhite.