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01-13-2009, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire View Post
It's weird.. Why are they casting white people to play characters that are "Asian" (or Asian looking at least considering it's set in another dimension/world) that live in a world influenced by a variety of Asian cultures.

It's something I'm not going to be able to get over.
Yeah, kind of strange that the only cartoon with actually asian looking characters is cast with a bunch of whities.

It's a bit of western ignorance. "Let's see, Memoirs of a Geisha... get me Zhang Ziyi, she's got squinty eyes!"


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