<div class="quote"><i>TheAvatarNate wrote:
so what? I don't care what they are. They aren't any race that is real. they are not from our world. ... however.
if we were to portray them in live action. most of them should be Asian because all the cultures are Asian based. so it would look very silly otherwise.</i></div>
<p>And THAT my friends, is what the racebending backlash with
<i>The Last Airbender</i> movie is all about. It's not about "equal opportunity" or about "colorism". It doesn't matter if some ATLA characters are modeled after non-Asian people, including a white guy
Mike DiMartino for Aang.
[1] Essentially, Asian culture is for Asian people <i>only</i>. White people should stick with white people s**t. They even came up a BS term for this: "
cultural appropriation". Not even a
black guy for Monk Gyatso. Not even a Hispanic
Seychelle Gabriel for Princess Yue. Zuko should be Japanese not Indian, because some Chinese are too <s>racist</s> proud to accept that Indians ARE Asians, and because Japan whooped China in the last century during WW2
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i454/Hasdi/45.gif
</p><p>Ironically, people opposed of this narrow-minded view of "cultural appropriation" (including myself) are accused of being racists. Yet, some of these accusers have shown more hate and intolerance against the movie and its fans than a white supremacist rally of the KKK. If this is their idea of social justice, they can take their view on "equality" and shove it up their ass. >.<
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