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[QUOTE=Zauriel;5495329]Ah you might be right. People will go watch Black Panther and still hate The BLM.
Last I heard, [I]Mulan[/I] movie grossed just under $70 million against a production budget of $200 million. Was it a bad film? Or did it flop due to the COVID pandemic?[/QUOTE]
Bad film
COVID
Too expensive on Disney+
Negative press due to Uyghur Muslim/China crisis.
[QUOTE=The Gold Stream;5495465]at least more chinese influence will get us to a sweet bladerunner timeline with that fancy east-meets-west aesthetic [b](also firefly)[/b][/QUOTE]
But this time with an actual Asian population, unlike Firefly.
[QUOTE=j9ac9k;5495354]I can't speak for the rest of the country, but I was walking my dog in my neighborhood where I've lived for almost a decade and a guy, sitting with his friends yelled "No more Chinese" at me for no reason. He back-pedalled when I confronted him, but I know what he felt emboldened to say. Is that a "big" thing? Maybe not, but it ruined my week and I think of it whenever I walk past that spot. And that's not nearly as bad as the stuff that's happened to others.[/QUOTE]
I am really sorry that happened to you, man. While I'm not Chinese, I am Asian American. This one night while walking back from my car to my apartment after leaving work there were these two guys walking directly behind me. It was literally the first time I ever thought I could be attacked because of my ethnicity. Nothing happened, but it was kind of an unsettling realization.
[QUOTE=Cyke;5496044]But this time with an actual Asian population, unlike Firefly.[/QUOTE]
Don't you know post-apocalyptic futures only have White people?
[QUOTE=Mik;5495917]Yeah, the Cold War was such bs. I'm hoping someday we as humans see ourselves as one global community[/QUOTE]
Will never happen. Humans as a species are too tribalistic. There's not much stock in the "global community" outside of finance. I'd settle just for us to have a strong enough sense of self preservation that we're no longer the most likely cause of our own extinction.
[QUOTE=Vakanai;5496941]Will never happen. Humans as a species are too tribalistic. There's not much stock in the "global community" outside of finance. I'd settle just for us to have a strong enough sense of self preservation that we're no longer the most likely cause of our own extinction.[/QUOTE]
I think maybe not now, but possibly eventually
[QUOTE=Vakanai;5496941][I]Will never happen.[/I] Humans as a species are too tribalistic. There's not much stock in the "global community" outside of finance. I'd settle just for us to have a strong enough sense of self preservation that we're no longer the most likely cause of our own extinction.[/QUOTE]
Sadly, I think you are correct, it isn't (currently) in human nature.
My ideal distant future is something akin to Star Trek (not the current edgy dystopian garbage but the TNG-early DS9 Era) in which Humanity has evolved: no one cares about superficial differences, poverty is extinct, and everyone is free to reach their full potential, oh, and we are exploring the stars (can't forget that). All we need is basic matter replication technology and we are set. ;)
[QUOTE=Vakanai;5495449]Yep. Chinese people as a race are fine, because we're all just bald monkeys with big heads when you get right down to it so racism is dumb. But the Chinese government is just nasty. Anti-Asian sentiment has no damned place in the world, but I'll support anti-Chinese sentiment (as in the Chinese government only) all day every day.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. There is a difference between anti-Chinese and anti-China (or anti-Communist if you prefer).
[QUOTE=Celgress;5495446]The worst rumor I've heard about Disney wishing to please China was the case of Finn from Star Wars. Apparently one of the reasons Disney downplayed the involvement of Finn in the latter two movies is because he tested poorly in China due, let's be honest, to well-known Chinese racism against darker-skinned people. Reportedly, Disney felt the movies would do better in all important China if Finn was sidelined.
[B]'Star Wars' China Poster Shrinks Black Character - Variety[/B]
[URL="https://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-china-poster-controversy-john-boyega-1201653494/"]https://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-china-poster-controversy-john-boyega-1201653494/[/URL][/QUOTE]
Chinese are not the only Asians that are racists. Naomi Osaka is a half-Japanese, half-Black. When Naomi Osaka was in a Japanese school, she was bullied by Japanese classmates who threw bananas at her. Some of them refused to swim in the pool with her.
Kind of amazing that a Marvel movie teaser would instantly lead to a mature discussion of geo-politics. I wonder what Castle would think about that, compared to all those exquisitely made DC films.
[QUOTE=green_garnish;5497033]Kind of amazing that a Marvel movie teaser would instantly lead to a mature discussion of geo-politics. I wonder what Castle would think about that, compared to all those exquisitely made DC films.[/QUOTE]
Why would you even bring him up?
[QUOTE=Zauriel;5497032]Chinese are not the only Asians that are racists. Naomi Osaka is a half-Japanese, half-Black. When Naomi Osaka was in a Japanese school, she was bullied by Japanese classmates who threw bananas at her. Some of them refused to swim in the pool with her.[/QUOTE]
I did not want to bring this up but you're correct. Many East Asians have historically been very racist against dark-skinned people especially Africans and many still are behind closed doors I can attest (regarding Japan, China, and South Korea to a lesser degree anyway). The physical appearance of characters such as Mr. Popo from Dragon Ball doesn't happen by accident.
[QUOTE=Mik;5496052]Don't you know post-apocalyptic futures only have White people?[/QUOTE]
That's not right. There's plenty of Asian people in... *checks the Terminator and Star Trek: First Contact*...
...[I][B]DAMMIT.[/B][/I]
[QUOTE=Cyke;5497059]That's not right. There's plenty of Asian people in... *checks the Terminator and Star Trek: First Contact*...
...[I][B]DAMMIT.[/B][/I][/QUOTE]
The Walking Dead Universe (especially the TV series and spin-offs) has a rather diverse survivor pool.
[QUOTE=Cyke;5497059]That's not right. There's plenty of Asian people in... *checks the Terminator and Star Trek: First Contact*...
...[I][B]DAMMIT.[/B][/I][/QUOTE]
There's more robots than PoC in the apocalypse