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Edward Zo, an Asian actor who tried to audition for the role of Light and was rejected on grounds of being Asian, made a Vlog speaking about whitewashing

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Light wasn’t Asian? Japanese

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Japan…is in….Asia…..

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But there are already 2 Asian actors who played live action Light Yagami. The English version should have a white person. Or at least ambiguously mixed race person.

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So because there was already a live action movie made with real Asians any subsequent interpretations are fair game for whitewashing?? That makes no sense. ‘The English version should have a white person?’ Does it hurt you so bad to see people that don’t ~represent your race~ in a movie about Asian people? Perhaps stick to movies about white people if you can’t bear to see people of another race cast in a movie that takes place in fucking Japan. You certainly wont have any shortage of movies to choose from since white people dominate the film industry in the U.S. Dear white people: NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU.

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It’s not a movie about Asian people. The source material is Japanese, but it’s set in a modern world. The English adaptation does not require any Asian culture for it to work. Having an Asian main character would be awkward and reduce the overall effectiveness of the story. Why even bother making an English adaptation if the cast is Asian? That would be ridiculous.

Look, I get it. Hollywood is white washed. I too, a a progressive tumblr user, ask for a more diverse representation in the media. But this is a terrible example to make an issue with.

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This was the most pathetic attempt at derailing an argument I’ve ever seen. ‘It’s not a movie about Asian people’ you actually said that and I had to read it with my own eyes. 😫 Bleach isn’t some ancient folklore passed down through the ages with vague origins, it’s a Japanese manga with Japanese characters that takes place in Japan created by Japanese people. ‘Set in a modern world??’ Yeah, it’s set in MODERN DAY JAPAN.

You’re literally saying because Americans are producing it it would be ‘ridiculous’ and ‘reduce the overall effectiveness of the story’ to have Asian characters. How?? That’s implying that we don’t have ASIAN AMERICANS in this country who are just as American as you and therefore deserve to be represented in film just as much as your beloved fellow whites, (who aren’t even native to this country). Nice try, bruh. 😂😂😂 You should probably quit while you’re ahead because this is beyond embarrassing.

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Bleach? We are talking about Death Note. Bleach is decidedly Asian and drenched in Asian culture. Death Note’s story can apply to any modern culture. It’s literally a book that kills people.

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“asian culture” ah yes. the whole continent of asia. the one culture. the one culture of the entire continent.

what the fuck is “modern” culture even supposed to be . … ………. .. …… HOW are you gonna call yourself “progressive” and then defend the whitewashing of death note and act like english-speaking asian-americans?? ?? ? do not exist??? ?? ? ??? ?

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I love the INSISTENCE that “modern” and “Asian” or “Japanese” are mutually exclusive. I also love that when people aren’t white, stories about them aren’t worthwhile, unless they’re in another language.

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So we got Shinigami in white culture now? Oh. Ok….

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The language that we use to talk about Japanese American Internment is so unacceptable to me. Read any article/textbook, and it makes it all sound so minor. The specific wording is so interesting: it’s ‘evacuation,’ not ‘forced imprisonment.’ It’s ‘Japanese,’ not ‘Japanese American,’ bc it’s so much easier to erase history and forget that the majority of these people had never even been to Japan and were born US citizens (not that it would have been justified even if they weren’t, but this was just used as another tool to dehumanize and distance us). We learn they were given ‘accommodations’ in camps, but not how they were subject to extreme temperatures with inadequate protection in stables and roofless stalls filled with manure, or how people were shot on the spot if they were even suspected of trying to escape, or for disobeying orders. Some were shot just so the military guards could show their control. We learn that the JAs were eventually freed and allowed to return to society, but not how anti-Japanese sentiment was so strong that most could not return to where they had lived before, and that many returned to find any property and belongings had been looted or even steamrolled by the government. Those who returned were beaten or even lynched. We don’t learn about home raids, or asset freezing, or deaths as a result of illness from communal living an no health care.
My history teacher even tried to tell us EO9066 was issued for THE SAFETY of the Japanese Americans, as they’d have been lynched by the public otherwise. Roosevelt himself even said this! In school we barely learn anything at all about internment, even though I live in an area w a high concentration of JAs.
Also notice how little detail we receive about camps in school. Did you know, at the time that this was happening, the camps were called concentration camps by the government? And that people were sent by the trainload in cattle cars? Sound familiar? Of course, I don’t mean to compare the histories of Jewish Germans and JAs, but this country has made a very conscious effort to hide and erase so much history of the camps because of associations that might be made, so we can more easily brush it off as merely a small blemish in history, barely worth mentioning.
Probably the most enraging thing to me, though, is that the JAs who were interned are routinely talked about as if they just calmly and submissively, docilely, ACCEPTED what was happening to them, and that they were peaceful and ~zen~ about the whole thing once in the camps. Read the true accounts of internees and you’ll discover the truth: people were enraged. People fought. Round-ups could turn violent. Internment was not calmly accepted and quietly endured. To quote a poem from Poston camp, “We’re trapped like rats in a wired cage/To fret and fume with impotent rage.”
So of course you get all these people suggesting we need something like registration and internment camps for Muslim Americans and Syrian refugees today. No one’s learned from history because no one was really taught it in the first place. And that is fucking unacceptable.
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and this is what people like Trump want to do to the Muslims in America atm… people never learn and history repeats itself

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- japanese, chinese, and koreans are not the only asians in the world. stop assuming every asian person you meet is japanese, chinese or korean.
- stop assuming all brown asians are filipino or hawaiian.
- stop trying to take guesses as to what someone is and just fuckin ask if you wanna know what ethnicity they are rather than make you look like a fucking idiot w/ the guessing game
- stop fetishizing asian women. we are not a fetish.
- asians are not submissive and weak. and no bitch, we don’t think your white dick is superior.
- quit making disgusting blogs about how you want to fuck a “gook bitch” with your “superior white dick” aka your micro-penis.