ext_223160 ([identity profile] zevabe.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] tablesaw 2009-11-03 02:59 pm (UTC)

I'm sorry if the question answer style doesn't work for you. If you don't want to answer my questions, I'm cool with that.

(a) The article of yours to which you linked presents an entirely different argument, which is that non-white characters should be portrayed by non-white actors (not to put words in your mouth, but I'd imagine we could add on: actors of the same ethnicity as the character, rather than generically: foreign). However, BtVS, as far as I can tell is not usually guilty of that. Yes, the Peruvian example above. However, the characters portrayed by white actors are generally white. (I'll add that actors frequently portay charachters with a different religion or national origin from themselves. Examples abound of British actors playing Americans and the reverse. Jewish actors portay non-Jewish characters, and vice-versa)

(b) I will read the second article, which looks interesting at another time and respond to its relevance at that time. I'd read it now, but I have class.

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