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Unpopular opinion but viewsers (mostly north american ones) should treat the “cultural appreciation” subject when it comes to Eastern European countries the same way they treat Asian, South American and African culture.
Because I am tired of seeing people from Easter European countries being portrait as whores, assassins, spies, drunk people and thiefs.
I am tired of using vampires as a tool to make one alone and depressed teenager feel like she’s being loved.
I am tired of seeing our legends and myths mocked.
I am tired of seeing our languages ignored and mocked with stupid fake accents.
I am tired of creators “makeing up” languages just because they are too ignorant to hire someone who speaks Russian/Romanian/Bulgarian/Czech etc.
the thing is there is an Italian-American culture, an Asian-American culture(even if your great-grandmother was Italian) and you are proud of this heritage and all that it implies. There are Russians and Romanians living in the USA so we can agree that there must be a Russian-American and Romanian-American culture. People are upset when they are stereotypes in movies or tv-shows. I watched a minidocumentary on why the Dragon lady is offensive. And while Im not trying to diminish other cultures pain, I will point out that in media Russians, Romanians, Eastern Europe=bad, the villain, the terrorists. Can someone point out a movie where the Russian guy was not the villain? And this is why we (eastern Europeans) are acting defensive. It was a piece of media where we were not portrayed as the bad guys, but instead as normal people. And sure, tell me that these characters were not really Romanian or Russian. But again, I have seen Americans claiming to be ”Italian-American” when their great-grandma was Italian and they dont speak Italian. Because in the end Eastern-European culture is not bad, is not ugly: we paint eggs for Eastern, we have beautiful folk costumes, we dress as bears or other animals on Christmas and sing and dance on the street. And even if they were not born in Romania or Russia, they still have the names that are used here.
No one is upset of Christians actor because there are Chinese people living in these countries. You see them everyday. But Black and Latino people are rarer. And the fact is they could have added diversity: make Lissa Romani, make Rose Georgian. I doubt that someone would cry for these interpretations. But the casting chose the easy path. Once again, Im not attacking the actors, but the casting team that did not think that Eastern Europe can be diverse
Watch Vampire Academy lose it's essence and originality, wtf is this cast??? :))) I don't want to see americans/brits/aussies playing roles which are east european or Turkish, as an example :)) and the fact that it's written by Julie Plec makes me cry out in pain because when did she do something right....TVD was pure shit by its final seasons -_-
The end goal of representation politics, as flawed as it can be, isn't to abolish acting and to have characters only be played by people exactly like them. There's a specific history of oppression that makes certain things problematic. That's why whitewashing is a thing and blackwashing is not.
Cultural erasure is sad and disappointing, but the reason people don't treat it as something as bad as whitewashing is because it's categorically not, it does not have nearly the same history of violence attached to it.
The US doesn't have a history of minstrel shows about eastern Europeans. There isn't a problem with lack of pale skin representation. If what you're interested in is pale skin and not actually a complex portrayal of Slavic cultures, there's plenty of content for you out there.
There can be perfectly valid and respectful critiques, expressed politely. Russians have actually being demonized on Western media, so I understand wishing for a Russian actor, I did too. But it's more a matter of authenticity in the portrayal, having a different type of white guy play Dimitri is not whitewashing. But you can be wary about how good a job he can do, certainly.
As for Rose, I wish her Turkish ethnicity had been actually represented, and you can be black and have Turkish heritage at the same time. That would have been cool, but it's not the actress' background as far as I know. I don't know if casting would be different under different circumstances, without covid restrictions, but it is what it is. I wished she had been Turkish in the movie too, but I still watched it, and I think Sisi will make a beautiful Rose.
To be honest, a lot of Turkish people look white to me, but if their experience is racialized in the US I won't erase that. But I think they look white to a lot of people who are raging right now too, because lots of them are much more focused on the exact shade of Rose's skin than in her actual heritage, funny that. Or they're praising white actresses who are also not Turkish at all. Very intriguing. The things people will pretend to care about in order to dress up their racism in social justice language are astonishing.
And Lissa was never albino, btw. Would be cool to have more rep for that, but she wasn't it. Most other characters are American, and they're descended from Europeans because that's how white Americans work, it's stolen land, they aren't native to it.
Hopefully the writers of the show will do alot of research and know what they're talking about, and portray the slavic inspiration of the books in the respectful and complex way these beautiful cultures deserve.
But you know what other culture the books draw heavily from too? You know what these books written by an American woman that deal with racism as one of their central themes also take inspiration from? The culture and oppressive structures of the country she lived in her whole life.
The oppression suffered by dhampirs is very related to racism and specially antiblackness/misogynoir experienced by people in real life, so using their plight for inspiration while featuring next to no black people in the books isn't great. I'm happy they're changing that at least, it's an improvement. I think the themes of the books could be enhanced by these choices.
The same way, if we get to Bloodlines, if you're gonna have a conversion therapy inspired plot you should have more queer rep. If the main couple draws from the struggles faced by interracial and queer couples, there should be more representation.
The cast looks beautiful and I need to see them actually acting to know if they're good. You're allowed to care about external descriptions of the characters. But in my opinion capturing the spirit of the character is much more important, and real life sociopolitics should be taken into account.
You can't please everyone, and you're never gonna get exactly what's in your head. But most of the fandom is grown adults now, and you should be able to handle disappointment without having a breakdown or harassing anyone. Keep things civil.
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Percy Jackson, Avatar, Riverdale, Winx Club and Mulan share the same thing: Disowning their live adaptations
Alec Lightwood in Shadowhunters: episode 3x16 “Stay with me”.
I’ve been afraid to join tumblr for a while but I thought i would give it a try. Hi everyone My name’s Sabrina I’m 23 and currently I’m making a lot of Percy Jackson fan art! I do want to share other types of fan arts from other media I enjoy and also I wanna share my own original content as well in the future. Here is some of the work I’ve done, this is my Avatar the Last Airbender crossver with Percy Jackson that got me my start on tik tok. ☺️💕
(I do want to note that these designs are a few months old and I draw some of the characters like percy and leo very differently now. I might be doing an update on these designs soon, maybe)
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