[quote=@NarcissisticPotato] I disagree with your disagreement which is also all good! :3 Obviously actors with some fame to their name have said fame for a reason and that reason is typically that they're good actors. Also I think it's quite the contrary nowadays. If we look at recent blockbusters such as Star Wars which featured a young black male and a young female and was highly acclaimed because of that, it's clear that being progressive is more "hip" than being regressive. [s]I feel dead inside for using "hip".[/s] If we look at the case of Doctor Strange in particular, I think Marvel were carefully trying to dance over the minefield that is the sensitivies of our generation and somehow managed to walk straight into a pole. The Ancient One, as I remember, was a male. They changed him to a her in an attempt to be progressive and it backfired on them anyways. I would celebrate that as a success in an industry that women were struggling in for a very long time and now a woman has as large a role as a man does in a movie that was based on a comic with little to no female main characters. Staying with the Ancient One, I'm pretty sure they mentioned that the Ancient One isn't a single character but like a title that is passed on and in this instance, it's a celtic woman that holds the title. Plus, while we're on the topic, I do agree with you that there are indeed a great number of Eastern Asians in the world. Or more specifically, there are a great number of Chinese people in the world. Over a billion, I do believe. Now, this is where it's kinda a shit storm that I don't agree with but it's an unfortunate reality. Ok, so let's say that Marvel does decide to appease the ravenous audience of forward-thinking Westerners and has a Tibetan play the Ancient One. You don't cast a Tibetan to play a Tibetan character? They still will more than likely have a problem. But let's skip this and assume that they did. Suddenly, boom, you lose the entire population of China viewing your movie after the Chinese government ban it for showing a person from a country they don't believe even exists. Marvel aren't doing that because they will lose [u]a lot[/u] of money. Their alternative, which they thought would work, was to cast a woman in the roll. That would appease the SJWs and it would avoid any political scandals; or it was meant to. This is not mentioning the fact that even if they did cast the Ancient One as an old Asian man imparting his great knowledge on a young and naive student, they would just be accused of putting in offensive Asian stereotypes. [sub]P.S. This isn't meant to offend - just my personal opinion on the matter! C:[/sub] [/quote] I'm white so I don't understand what it feels like to have my race underrepresented, but because I have many Asian friends (there are a lot of Asians at my school due to a Korean company being set up nearby) I have heard their sides and they are all mad about it. Because I'm white, I will never understand what it's like to be underrepresented in media, but I acknowledge that it is happening and it is a problem because it's really disheartening when I see my asian friends (or black or Hispanic friends, but my Asian friends especially because they are probably the most U represented minority's in America) upset over something like this. I'm not offended by whitewashing culture because I am white, but I try to stand by the people who this affects. If the vast majority of Asian-Americans don't like whitewashing, but those who are not Asian-American and do not know what it's like to have their culture whitewashed defend such an action, who has more authority over the subject? Obviously the party that is affected by it. [quote=@FantasyChic] Not that this has anything to do with the discussion going on in this chat (it might though which is why I will bring it up) but no matter what one does, someone will find the need to complain about it regardless. It is happening a lot more frequently nowadays and the amount of sensitivity people show is, quite frankly, worrying. I can't say I know what Marvel's motives are in terms of all of this, but I like both of your points. What I raise is, no matter what they do, someone will voice their concern, people will latch on to it, and it will be a driving force for some to get their opinions heard. The first example that came to my mind wasn't about whitewashing, but instead it was about how the new Thor is a female. I remember first hearing about that. As a female myself, my first reaction was "oh wow, cool!" because a popular character just got gender swapped (I know the Thor himself didn't swap genders, but hear me out), but I also remember hearing the backlash they got for doing so. Some liked it, others didn't. You can't please everyone. So yeah, both your arguments sound logical. Someone isn't going to take kindly to it regardless, especially something as widely recognized as the comic book genre and "geek/nerd" stuff. [/quote] While I agree that everything is gonna get backlash in some way, it goes back to who is most affected by it. The people who's culture is being appropriated and misrepresented? Or the small victory of having a female character though it's less relevant than the other issue at hand and wouldn't actually offend anyone if The Ancient One was male? Either way, it wouldn't have been hard to have a female Asian actress either. Sorry, I hope none of you guys feel like I'm attacking or anything like that, I'm just a very passionate person who likes debates >.< either way, we should just call it a draw, yeah?