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What is racebending?Movies or TV series based on other fiction or history where the race of a character are non-Caucasian but are cast with Caucasian actors. Coined to describe the movie The Last Airbender where clearly asian characters of the anime series Avatar The Last Airbender are cast with white actors. Avatar The Last Racebender was a terrible movie which had the main character Aang played by a white kid. racebending - videoRacebending - what is it?an extended practice in comics and movie and tv show adaptations from comics, novels and other sources where fictional characters and historical figures' race are changed. in the past, this used to happen in the form of caucasian actors being given the roles of black, brown and asian characters and historical figures, known today as whitewashing. nowadays the trend has shifted dramatically in what is known as blackwashing, where under the excuse of lack of diversity white characters and historical figures, important and minor, are cast (or illustrated in the case of comics and animated shows) , almost always, as afro blacks. -dude, did you hear about the les miserables show? they made Javed black! What does "racebending" mean?When the race or ethnicity of a character in a story is changed to an ostensibly more "palatable" or "profitable" ethnicity. Paramount is racebending the the characters of The Last Airbender--Sokka's going to be played by a sparkly sparkly vampire! |
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