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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 1291616" data-attributes="member: 6791">Flexor the Mighty! wrote:Y'know, funny thing about that whole thing, I'm an American of Asian ethnicity and.......I was never offended by the Trade Federation guys. I was just offended by the suckiness of the movie itself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The writer of the article has his heart in the right place...but he's fighting his fight all in the wrong ways. I do wish there were more diversity and equality on the big screen. But I don't cry 'racism' when I don't see an Asian person being represented. LotR takes place in Middle-Earth.....the story revolves around certain races.....it is what it is. No racism here. I never for once thought there was any obvious or even subtle tones of racism at all. I agree with The Serge on all he said. A large part of this story has to do with mulitple races working together to battle evil. 'Nuff said.Things that I think are somewhat racially offensive are things that continue to promote the Hollywood stereo-type of the impotent asian male while at the same time making the asian female 'the exotic flower of the east' object of desire. How many American made movies do you know where the Asian female spurns all her asian male suitors until one day ...magically....a beautiful caucasian male comes along to give her exactly what she's been always dreaming of?Hollywood just doesn't get it. They don't realize that a lot more of the  'real world' has risen above ethnicity barriers a lot longer ago than they think. You can have a movie with no lead male caucasian actor and it will be fine. People will see it. You can have a female lead middle-eastern character and people will like it. Its all about the quality of the story, directing and performance. I have a pretty ethnically diverse circle of friends and we've had discussions on this. Which of our races gets shafted the most in Hollywood more?  Its always a funny subject matter. My African-American friend hates when we refer to him as 'African-American'....he just says, "I hate that term, I'm a black guy...c'mon now....."We talk about the usual, black guy gets killed first.....asian guy doesn't get to kiss the girl.....the latino guy has a criminal or shady background...... blah, blah, blah...But no matter how bad we think we got it....we have all concluded...the ethnic group to get the worst from Hollywood are those of middle-eastern background.</blockquote>

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