His father is 100% Hawaiian, his mother is English, it’s not hard to find that out. But I’ll take your point fine, he “looks White.” With that, see my reply to the other guy about the Americans hiring Americans thing, its 3 in the morning here and I’m a bit tired, mistake will happen. On point though, it isn’t racist for the studio to change a film because of the reaction of the test audience, which may have been based on many factors - maybe the problem wasn’t that he was Asian, maybe the problem was their chemistry didn’t feel real and the scene felt forced and awkward, perhaps the rest of the film didn’t set up the relationship right and it was just a surprise and didn’t work- we’ll never really know unless we were there. The truth is that studios want to make money, they only care about green, that’s why they’d only hire people who cut off their noses if that’s what the audience demanded and would make them the most money.
And I suppose I may have misunderstood what you were talking about with the Goku thing, my bad, I thought you were asking for other alternative besides the pure racism you thought it must have been and since neither of us was in the room when the decision was made and thus we only have speculation and opinion I gave a possible reasoning. And like I said about Tokyo Drift, my understanding was that there was never a point where it was not going to be Paul Walker so IDK what your source is and maybe it is more accurate than mine, which to be fair is just my friend who was obsessed with Paul Walker and practically worshiped the guy.
And I know racism exists, and it’s often being fuelled by a lot of people in powerful positions to keep people down. I just think it is silly to look for it and force it into places where it isn’t, it’s not hard to find real racism, why look for the made up kind, I think that claiming it where it isn’t is belittling to when it really happens. But that’s just me.
There are racism, and it is in film. Well, I'm in college, and I have to do a lot of research for it in my class, so I have to do a bunch of interviews and watch a bunch of movies on the subjects. That is how I know about Tokyo Drift and Romeo Must Die. There would be no reason to change the relationship to just friends when the whole movie is about saving the damsel in distress and the relationship between the whole. The scene that they cut were about the two of them kiss. Why would they cut it and change it to a hug? The whole movie build up to that kiss, so there is chemistry there. Why are you so adamant about no racism in the casting decision? Racism is not always overt, so sometimes it's not about seeing them but also about the decisions being made around them. I have already given examples to the existence of it, like the movie 21 in which about a bunch of Asian kids then they were changed to white kids as well as the Last Airbender which heavily based around Asian culture but all the main characters are white. You can defend one or two decisions, but I can give you even more examples on the subject, and trust me, I wrote a 12 pages paper on it. The racism in the casting decision wasn't like "oh, let's not have Asian characters in it because we hate them" but more like "Asian characters are undesirable and no one would want to see them, so let's replace them". It's more like stereotypical view being perpetuated by the media and in turn being feed back to the media by the audience. It's catch-22. Stereotypes being spread, and it becomes acceptable practice in casting and hiring of Asians.
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