| re: Gene Nelson -- Yes "White Privilege" Benefit |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:36 pm EST 03/08/21 |
| In reply to: re: Gene Nelson -- Yes "White Privilege" Benefit - BroadwayTonyJ 04:58 pm EST 03/08/21 |
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I don't think I was part of that conversation about Adiarte, though I am still curious which actor you were thinking of who was a child star and then died after developing acne.
In terms of being Asian enough, as I wrote at the time, we get into some very difficult territory that verges on the White supremacist notion of "one drop" to determine who is or isn't Asian. But I don't think any definition of who is appropriate to play Thai/Southeast Asian should be so loose as to include Russian Jews and someone whose mother was mixed race with ancestral connections to Siberian Mongol tribes. I think this was only considered appropriate in the 1950s because these actors were regarded as "foreign", which was to say anything that deviated from White/Western European. |
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