As weird as it sounds, changing things like that doesn't bother me in many contexts. If I went to see King Lear on stage, Lear could be played by a Scotsman, and if his three daughters were played by an Agentinian, a Malaysian, and an Australian Aborigine speaking English with foreign accents, it wouldn't phase me a bit. In other contexts, it'd bother me a little, but I'd probably get over it. I didn't care about the changes to color they made for the WoT adaptation, I simply refused to watch it because it looked like a crummy adaptation.