| Mongol ancestry and the creation of "Asian" |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 03:42 pm EST 02/14/21 |
| In reply to: re: Even as a rebuke, your comment is thuddingly obvious and predictable. - Michael_Portantiere 10:55 am EST 02/14/21 |
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A connection to the Buryat people, who are indigenous to Siberia, does not connect him to East Asian or Southeast Asian ancestry, which is germane to the discussion of portraying a Thai king.
Again, we get into the thorny territory of how "race" is determined and where we choose to draw geographic boundaries to connect people into a singular identity. If you want to create a very broad definition of "Asian" that includes the entire map of the Asian continent and any people who are connected to that map, then sure, Brynner was Asian. But that's a hell of a stretch, especially when part of what made Brynner "Asian enough" for the part were his own fabricated stories of his parentage. |
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