Yes. Pretty sure you already know that both those films make me wanna hurl and/or hurl flaming pitchforks.
One thing:
We are not raised to think that, not at all; we are raised to think that our backgrounds are normal (neutral), our features are normal (neutral), our attitudes are normal (neutral), our accents are normal (neutral), and so forth.In the rather specific context of the places I grew up, this actually didn't hold true, and I'm pretty sure doesn't hold true for a lot of mixed-race people, for other first-generation citizens, and other hyphen-Americans, as my sister and I tend to put it. Within my own nuclear family there's my non-mixed white dad, non-mixed Asian mom and siblings, and then me. So there's that thing that I hear a lot of transracially adopted people get too: you're raised to hold the belief that nothing about you is normal, or neutral. You're actually raised to believe that you're the one who's different
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In the rather specific context of the places I grew up, this actually didn't hold true, and I'm pretty sure doesn't hold true for a lot of mixed-race people, for other first-generation citizens, and other hyphen-Americans, as my sister and I tend to put itThat was very poor phrasing on my part; I'm sorry. "We", in that case (and yes, this goes to show just how badly I mangled this) was mostly meaning: "When you're white, you're raised assuming that everything about you is the fall-back, default, neutral position." I was kind of wondering, in the back of my head, if that would hold true no matter how you grow up, but I suspected it wouldn't based on how the dominant culture in America tends to be oblivious to every other culture, but the reverse isn't true. Ouch
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It's the same thought process that says that male = neutral, but women are OTHER. Which is why it's okay to have a female character in a mainstream blockbuster movie, but not as the lead character who moves the action, because how are guys supposed to deal with that? Whereas women have to do that ALL THE TIME.
Exact same thought process. Can't be asking the white folks to see the world through the eyes of a non-white character! People would freak out and not come to the movie!
...Actually, the worst part is that every generation gets, like, ONE non-white actor awarded the "won't scare white people!" crown of Hollywood, and gets all the action-adventure parts. There can't be more than one at once, or people get nervous, I guess. ::sigh::
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Yes. Pretty sure you already know that both those films make me wanna hurl and/or hurl flaming pitchforks.
One thing:
We are not raised to think that, not at all; we are raised to think that our backgrounds are normal (neutral), our features are normal (neutral), our attitudes are normal (neutral), our accents are normal (neutral), and so forth.In the rather specific context of the places I grew up, this actually didn't hold true, and I'm pretty sure doesn't hold true for a lot of mixed-race people, for other first-generation citizens, and other hyphen-Americans, as my sister and I tend to put it. Within my own nuclear family there's my non-mixed white dad, non-mixed Asian mom and siblings, and then me. So there's that thing that I hear a lot of transracially adopted people get too: you're raised to hold the belief that nothing about you is normal, or neutral. You're actually raised to believe that you're the one who's different ( ... )
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In the rather specific context of the places I grew up, this actually didn't hold true, and I'm pretty sure doesn't hold true for a lot of mixed-race people, for other first-generation citizens, and other hyphen-Americans, as my sister and I tend to put itThat was very poor phrasing on my part; I'm sorry. "We", in that case (and yes, this goes to show just how badly I mangled this) was mostly meaning: "When you're white, you're raised assuming that everything about you is the fall-back, default, neutral position." I was kind of wondering, in the back of my head, if that would hold true no matter how you grow up, but I suspected it wouldn't based on how the dominant culture in America tends to be oblivious to every other culture, but the reverse isn't true. Ouch ( ... )
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AKA: certainly not giving this movie my money.
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Exact same thought process. Can't be asking the white folks to see the world through the eyes of a non-white character! People would freak out and not come to the movie!
...Actually, the worst part is that every generation gets, like, ONE non-white actor awarded the "won't scare white people!" crown of Hollywood, and gets all the action-adventure parts. There can't be more than one at once, or people get nervous, I guess. ::sigh::
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