Well, you said that my general question wasn't answerable without a Chinese D&D, so I was just trying to follow that with a hypothetical that imagined just that. Don't blame me for your rabbit holes.
So, then, are we good enough to be held to a better standard than those worse than us? China is then worse than us, and needs an easier standard?
Don't you see the inherent racism in this?
Not a bit. What we do shouldn't care about what others do. I'm a firm believer in character being what you do when others aren't watching. My point is that if we hold ourselves to a high standard, we should hold others to the sane standard. To do otherwise is to tacitly acknowledge that not only do we think ourselves better, but that others aren't good enough to be held to our standards. That's my issue, the soft peddling lower standards for those not us is a form of stealth racism.
Even if that was what Hussar is saying, and it isn't, it wouldn't be racist. That is absurd.
I hold myself self to a higher standard than I hold anyone else to because I haven't the same right to judge others that I have to judge my own actions. It has nothing to do with how "good" anyone is.
But again, it isn't about a higher or lower standard, it is a different standard because the situation is different. If the demo of Peking is 99% Chinese (it isn't, but for simplicity imagine it is), then its less bad for a Chinese movie set there to have 99% native Chinese actors, than it would be to make a tv show in Boston entirely white.
Further, when Chinese studios make a movie for the global market, it is usually a movie that is created as a window into China's ancient culture by way of mythos, like
Crouching Tiger. Essentially the same as an Irish movie about some ancient Irish mythological hero.
Every single major american release is expected to be viewed internationally. Every last damn one. Further, American media has a long history of erasing and/or stereotyping the diversity of its audience and the places and times it depicts. The potential audience for American media is simply more diverse than media from any other nation, which means that American media needs to reflect the diversity of its audience.
Instead, our movies and tv and even comic books show scenes of predominately Black or Latin American cities/neighborhoods, and they're full of white people.
Hollywood makes a movie about Stonewall, and invents a white cis dude to be its hero, instead of the trans women of color that actually were the heroes of that story.
I go to the theater and a preview starts, and it's showing the Great Wall, and...####ing Matt Damon!? Seriously? Matt Damon is the hero of the story about fighting dragons on The Great Wall of China!? Really!? Apparently what the wall
should have been built to keep out was ####ing white people!
People should be able to see themselves in some of the media they consume. No one expects every peice of media to match exact percentages of global or local demographics. US media just needs to not be an endless sea of straight, cis, white dudes.
