in a world where there are SO few roles for people of color, not casting people of color when one of them does pop up is a problem. that’s the point. not that some people look a certain way or not. it happens way to often to let it slide.

True, I totally forgot about Hoku!

Maybe if there was better representation of POC in Hollywood as a whole, this would not be an issue. But there isn’t a lot of racial diversity (or any kind of diversity, let’s be real) in Hollywood at all. Sure, this is one instance of whitewashing. But it’s not the only one, by a long shot.

Ooh, how about Shannyn Sossamon? I believe she is one quarter Hawaiian-Filipino (and gorgeous!). But at four years younger than Bradley Cooper, I guess she would have been too old to play his love interest, anyway. Sigh.

“Where are you from? No where are you FROM-from? Oh, you’re Filipino? The cleaning lady at our dentists’ office was that.”

Every conversation I’ve ever had with strangers growing up. Like, what do you want me to do with that information bruh?

Half. Half half half half half. Half Asian/Pacific Islander. There are many, many hapas that pass as white. But not all white people pass as hapa. Emma Stone fails miserably. Her features are suuuuper European, and there is not an ounce of anything in her that one could point to and say, “Oh, that looks kind of like…

Actually I would argue that that is the fucking point.

“It’s ok if we keep othering you because you lied to us and made us think you’re white. So we gave this part to a white lady. That’s what you get for tricking us.”

Scrolling through these comments was really depressing. So many people shrugging off systemic, whitewashing racial bias. These casting decisions say that whiteness is the default even when the characters are explicitly written as mixed race, but MY MOM’S AUNT’S BEST FRIEND’S COUSIN LOOKS WHITE so that makes it OK.…

Interestingly, genetics doesn’t really make anybody “a quarter” anything, at least in DNA. You inherent exactly half your DNA from each parent, but its a tossup with half of their genes (inherited from their parents) they pass on to you.

She also made $20346 last month working from home.

Part of the problem is that Asian/Mixed-Asian/Polynesian/Hapa actors are so underrepresented in Hollywood that taking away literally one of a few parts available to them and give them to a white person is never going to be the same thing as a PoC being cast as a white character. Never.

my point is that the ability of part-Asian people to pass as white is irrelevant to Emma Stone playing this part. It’s more Hollywood whitewashing and this shit has got to stop.

because white people aren’t 6.6% of the demographics coming out of hollywood. additionally, rue was not recast as someone black, she was black in the books. louis ck’s wife isn’t being cast as someone not black, angelina jolie in salt proved that the film worked regardless of gender.

I have a bio ½ sister who is ¼ black and ¼ Seminole and she has blonde hair, blue eyes, and pink skin because the black and Seminole had some white DNA back in the sands of time that came out in her.

...or Chloe Bennett or Grace Park...

My point is that it’s ridiculous and they missed the opportunity to do the right thing and actually cast an actor with Asian heritage for the role. I’m sick to death of Hollywood thinking it’s all fine and good to continue doing this, while standing by and excusing it in the name of “acting.” As someone else…

For everyone commenting with anecdotes about their Hapa friends/relatives/dog walkers/random persons: NOT THE FUCKING POINT.

You might want to hold off on that generalization. I’m half-white, half-asian and my daughter is a quarter asian, three-quarters white. She looks more asian than I do. I know other women and men in my life that are also three quarters and look more asian than emma stone does. Take a look at Keanau Reeves. He’s a…

Agreed. I gave up on acting because my ethnic ambiguity doesn’t make a lot of room for my face to get cast in stuff unless the ad says it’s looking for colorblind casting. And then it’s still a toss up. But being mixed race of mostly Asian, Malay, and White, I look too white for Asian characters and not white enough…