But about racial representations America stunted when it comes to human representation.
Idie Okonkwo....Idie I believe is an Islamic name, Okonkwo is Igbo whom in modern Nigera often find themselves at odds with the Islamic Hausa (primarily) or Fulani (the former rulers of the northern Nigerian Sokoto Caliphate), and is code named Oya a Yoruba Orisha/godess.
The Igbo who got off bad when they tried to form Biafra in the 80's, they thought the sort of christian Yoruba would side with them against the Islamic Hausa. But the Yoruba sided with the Hausa and the Igbo were badly defeated, and starved. all in the 1980's.
Just type in Yoruba-Igbo movies and you get the nollywood equivalent of guess who's coming to dinner.
Why is Idie Okonkwo, named what she is named. Okoonkwo is the protagonist of "Things Fall Apart", and Igbo gods are incredibly specified to an area not unlike Japanese god of mountain _____. Yoruba Orisha are simply better known to the west because they are not dissimilar to western panthions such as the Asier or Olympians.
I mean, I suppose Jubilee is Han Chines, but nothing has ever been stated. I don't even think her heritage has been addressed besides "Parents from China".
I actually bought Secret Love just for Danny/Misty. I thought it was a good, if not great, depiction of their relationship and I rather enjoyed their continuing friendship with Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, as well as the friendship between their respective daughters. (Seriously, Danny and Luke both named their daughters after each other --- Danielle Cage and Lucy Rand-Knight.) Gushing about Danny/Misty and the Danny/Luke "bromance" aside, I do agree that society has definitely gone backwards when it comes to attitudes on race and about people of color, largely due to the growing backlash against so-called "political correctness," which is, ironically, the politically correct way of saying that some people just can't bring themselves to see other people who don't look, think, believe, or live like them as worthy of the same level of respect and acknowledgement as them.
The spider is always on the hunt.
Don't be surprised if in a predominantly white country whites get more attention
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Yeah, that's why I read Secret Love too. I loved everyone's dynamic and friendship. And I agreed with Luke that peanut butter should never be crunchy. lol
Only thing I hate is the story was too short (for me) and I wished it's what happened with 616 Misty & Danny, whom we don't see anything of these days. And surprise, surprise, the tv shows omitted their relationship completely. Instead Misty got with Luke, and Danny is with Colleen. Hmmmm
Marvel is just another example of it. These days, there is a bias with POC. In real life, and even some cartoons, you have character that are supposed to be black or mixed-black. But they can't be too black-looking.
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Not entirely true.
Rudyard Kipling(British Imperial), Ron E. Howard ( American) and Edgar Rice Burroughs (American), might have not always been the most flattering of non white characters but they never wrote as if people of color did not exist. and these are pre WW1 writers. Hell these guys even recognized where imperial powers got their resources from, and who they oppressed to get it.
I can understand the predominantly white countries have predominantly white characters if their creators came from traditionally isolationist or isolated societies, not from resource hogging empires who set up race based cast systems.
one is ignorance the other is will full blindness.
I think the point here isn't "who's seen more" than it is "who's been seen less and less" along with being changed. But this goes beyond comics. Hollywood has gotten more diverse, if not somewhat forced. Every new black actor that gets attention seems to be of actual African descent, very dark. Almost as if they are overcompensating. It's not just America either. Look at the Spanish-speaking TV channels. How often do you ever see darker or just straight-up black actors or hosts on those channels. Marvel seems only interested in changing things with a heavy hand. Not by hiring writers of color because they are good writers, but because they are black, or hispanic or homosexual. And then assigns them to a book that matches that factor. It's shortsighted and damaging. Somewhat insulting to say that if your not "X" you cant write "X". To squash anyone that may try to attack me for my "insensitive", "out of touch", or "racist" views, I'm a black man myself. 1st gen Jamaican-American from Miami, Florida. My twitter handle is right there below my name.
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They are not overcompensating they are preparing.
Nollywood makes more movies that Bollywood, yes most of them are hammy and Shot on $#ittieo (Unflattering way of saying shot on video), but Hollywood does not want to get locked out of Africa like they got locked out of India. The Indian subcontinent has their own movie culture that developed very differently from western ones because the west did not cater to them. Let me tell you Star War is never going to beat Dhoom in the Indian market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhoom_(film_series)
If Hollywood loses Africa like they lost India, they will go from being global to provincial as the European film industry.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-afr...ake-ebola-film
The film industry in rapidly changing and most westerners Black and White are blind to the vast demographics shift Hollywood sees on the horizon.
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The X-editorial team is a complete boys club, and they micromanage the writers who try to tell good stories. Why do the Avengers get writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Saladin Ahmed, and G. Willow Wilson, who get creative control, but the X-Men are still stuck with a straight, white male boys club with editors AND writers?
Fans really need to speak up about this.
The x-editors need to just give it up. X-comics have been trash the past decade, and look what we have ...
Storm - spineless and useless
Jubilee, Monet - turned into VAMPIRES!
Bishop - only used for stupid plot points, like Messiah CompleX, then thrown away
Well if you look at the makeup of the X-Men editorial AND writers, it's full of straight white men with the occasional white woman thrown in there!
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Well until recently one of the main X-Men editors was an Asian gay man. Daniel K, got fired mind you, but he was there for a while. I think most of the micromanaging comes from a higher point than the editors. They seem to be more of the caretakers of the writing staff... the ones that have less power and influence anyway.
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