Xenophobia

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To add to that, Hollywood still can't differentiate Asians when casting. They need a person to play a Japanese role, let's get a Chinese. Recent example, the Netflix show To All the Boys I Loved Before, the character Lara Jean Covey is supposed to be Half-Korean, Half-White. They got Lana Condor to play the part. She's Vietnamese. Memoirs of a Geisha got Zhang Ziyi to portray the aforementioned geisha who is supposed to be Japanese. Because we all look the same right?

Haha as a blasian im struggling from both sides...different asians playing role of koreans and AA/west africans playing the role of somalis.

Remember the abomination called Big Hero 6, San Fransokyo my ass hole. When we ask for racially diverse movie we didn’t ask for it to be in your one asian film.

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100% agree and this is racist but also can we talk about how South Koreans know what racism is when it is an them but when it’s a black person it suddenly doesn’t matter and I am a little bitter about that because it’s hypocritical

Black people do the same thing. In fact, everyone has racial biases and prejudices and stereotypes, EVERYONE is racist in some way.

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Haha as a blasian im struggling from both sides...different asians playing role of koreans and AA/west africans playing the role of somalis.

Yeah, I mean it also happens with white actors and actresses to be fair. A movie has an Irish role, let's get Brad Pitt to do a comedic Irish accent. An English person? Let's get Don Cheadle. I guess it depends on the context of the movie, I'm not espousing for a hard rule that a role should just be played by an actor of that certain nationality or ethnicity but with movies like Memoirs of a Geisha, which is a historical, epic fiction, giving the main role to a Chinese was weird.

My somali side lowkey suffers a lot too, every movie we’re either pirates, drug dealers, orr terrorists. They never have somali actors, and they portray them as some deadly skinny warlords wanting to kill everyone. Like they didn’t even get the name right, never seen a somali with a western name but they named the character “daquan” or some...like that’s an AA name every somali has a Somali/Arabic name, not to mention he introduced himself as Somalian, we’re somali not somalian. NO REPRESENTATION IS BETTER THAN BAD REPRESENTATION. LEAVE US OUT OF YOUR FILMS HOLLYWOOD, STUPID SHITS.

It’s gotten so bad, everyone in Korea correlates somalis with pirates.

My life on the daily...

A: Oh! Your hapa?

B: Yes, my dad is Somali

A: Somali?? Wahhh....You are pirate?

B: *click image*

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Quote from samtanvan

My somali side lowkey suffers a lot too, every movie we’re either pirates, drug dealers, orr terrorists. They never have somali actors, and they portray them as some deadly skinny warlords wanting to kill everyone. Like they didn’t even get the name right, never seen a somali with a western name but they named the character “daquan” or some...like that’s an AA name every somali has a Somali/Arabic name, not to mention he introduced himself as Somalian, we’re somali not somalian. NO REPRESENTATION IS BETTER THAN BAD REPRESENTATION. LEAVE US OUT OF YOUR FILMS HOLLYWOOD, STUPID SHITS.

It’s gotten so bad, everyone in Korea correlates somalis with pirates.

My life on the daily...

A: Oh! Your hapa?

B: Yes, my dad is Somali

A: Somali?? Wahhh....You are pirate?

B: *click image*

43F78EFD-0969-4709-A82F-77D9DD936C8C.jpeg

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Do you get a lot of "Look at me. I am the Captain now." jokes?

Not to be that person but I'm sick of the black vs asian on who suffer more whenever we have a thread about racism against Asians. Being discriminated more is not a competition either side want to win, because the only trophy for that is misery.

We can fight multiple fights at the same time. A lot of people say racism against asians are normalized because asians dont speak up. But it's ironic that when they do, people start comparing discrimination against black people. Who really win when this type of discussion take place? The aggressor and the racist people. I get why people bring it up but at the same time it's sad. It's like abused children argue with each other who got hurt more when the issue is neither should have gotten hit and how are we going to prevent it going forward. Just my 2 cents.

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To be honest, I don't really mind that. As long as it's positive representation, I'm fine with it.

It depends really on the context of the film. If a casting director casts a Malaysian to portray a Filipino hero during the Spanish revolution in the Philippines, that's just wrong. If the film is supposed to be steeped in the history or culture of a certain nation or ethnicity, I think the casting should be authentic. Or at the very least, cast someone who can actually speak or mimic the language. Casting Daniel Dae Kim on LOST who is supposed to be a native South Korean but anyone who knows the language can attest to his American accent. I'm not saying each and every casting directors are racists but Hollywood can get very lazy with their casting choices.

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Do you get a lot of "Look at me. I am the Captain now." jokes?

I was thinking of adding that but I didn’t moreso in America than korea, america was an annoyingly daily occurrence