Posted on Friday, 13 January 2012

America’s embrace of Japanese pop culture, particularly manga and anime, hasn’t resulted in an embrace of Asian and Asian-American actors when those storylines go to Hollywood.

From the article on CNN: “Is Hollywood ‘whitewashing’ Asian roles?”

Maybe they’re just catching on…this has been happening for decades now. A great documentary that explores the subject is called The Slanted Screen. Check it out.

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