For the 29384754th time, the characters are Asian

[othellia]

Ugo.com has posted an interview with the A:TLA track team. Amongst a lot of stuff about the awesome music that we know and love is this quote by Benjamin Wynn about starting up at the beginning of the series:

"We went out to lunch and started talking about the show, how the story takes place in an alternate world and the characters. Everyone is

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[caterfree10]

I read that and squeed out loud. <3 Oh man how badly I want to love on The Track Team. ^_^

'Course, the naysayers will probably still say it's not worth shit unless Bryke says it. *can't roll eyes hard enough*

[glockgal]

'Course, the naysayers will probably still say it's not worth shit unless Bryke says it.

Which of course Mike and Bryan have (in interviews before the movie, in the artbook) but naysayers interpret it as:
a) "Well Mike and Bryan say everything in the world is Asian...but they just mean the world/architecture/food/writing/clothing/culture! THAT STILL DOESN'T MEAN THE PEOPLE HAVE TO BE."
b) "RATHBONE WAS BORN IN SINGAPORE OR SOMETHING, AND RINGER HAS AN ASIAN-ISH QUALITY".
c) "There's one specific element in one specific episode that Mike and Bryan say is based on something not Asian, thereby rendering the entire cartoon 'ambiguous' (aka white)!"

[caterfree10]

Ah right, how could I have forgotten? *facepalm* I swear, I will never figure out why people like that insist on being so ignorant like that, I really won't. ~_~

[nthdraft]

because it's less work than thinking.

[ingriam]

Because they have difficulty outthinking old cheese?