I haven’t seen the movie so I can’t speak for it, but …

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Comment on George Takei to Hollywood: “Quit Whitewashing Anime” by Anonymous:

I haven’t seen the movie so I can’t speak for it, but in the cartoon series the pattern seems to be:
Fire Nation – Japan
Earth kingdom – China
Water Tribe – Inuits (eskimos)
Air Nomads – Tibetan monks

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• George Takei to Hollywood: “Quit Whitewashing Anime”:
  

  firenation’s building look like thailand while airbender clothes somehow resemble Himalayan monk Waterbender looks like ainu tribe from japanese and earthbender is chinese

• George Takei to Hollywood: “Quit Whitewashing Anime”:
  

  I don’t think The Last Airbender flopped because it had a white cast. Anime in general doesn’t feature Japanese-looking characters, and The Last Airbender wasn’t a particularly Asian story as much as it was a universal one. If I had to pick a reason it flopped, it would be because in so many ways it missed the point of the “anime” (or American cartoon in the style of anime, if you prefer). The Fire Nation was played by Indian actors, all of whom overacted their parts and came off as …

• George Takei to Hollywood: “Quit Whitewashing Anime”:
  

  I hated that George took away a straight role from a straight person. They should have cast Sulu better and gotten someone that didn’t predominately suck cock. George should only be allowed to play gay roles. See what I did there… Idiots…

• George Takei to Hollywood: “Quit Whitewashing Anime”:
  

  Except the bong

• George Takei to Hollywood: “Quit Whitewashing Anime”:
  

  “Another example would be Jesus, that somehow is portrayed as a snow white caucasian man, even though he was a jew and likely quite brown if he would have existed.” Yeah, apparently you know very little about historical sources.

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  17:44 lol what? no it doesn’t.

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