I'm lost. What do you mean by "shall we get upset that there's a definite Native American cast to the tribal communities in Avatar"? The Princess and the Frog thing doesn't help to clarify what you might mean, since I don't think that the Princess in question is a token anything, given that the majority of the (non-animal) cast is black
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(Re: brown. It's illustrative of unconscious racism from a point of priviledge. I'm not part of a "dangerous" race, just an invisible one, so I get off the hook a lot.
Not sure I understand what you were trying to get at here.
While I appreciate that sentiment, I've often wondered about it. It seems... naive? Not that I think that people shouldn't look for commonalities so that we can all get along. Rather, I think that too often "bringing people together" becomes "needless assimilation." Also, it just seems cliched. I chew on it a lot, trying to decide how I feel about it.
Naive, no. Hopeful. "Needless assimilation" comes only when the strengths found in diversity are left behind or taken away. Ideals only become cliches if one doesn't actually believe in them.
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Not sure I understand what you were trying to get at here.
While I appreciate that sentiment, I've often wondered about it. It seems... naive? Not that I think that people shouldn't look for commonalities so that we can all get along. Rather, I think that too often "bringing people together" becomes "needless assimilation." Also, it just seems cliched. I chew on it a lot, trying to decide how I feel about it.
Naive, no. Hopeful. "Needless assimilation" comes only when the strengths found in diversity are left behind or taken away. Ideals only become cliches if one doesn't actually believe in them.
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