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honorh ([info]honorh) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2012-03-08 21:50:00


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NEWS FLASH: In the future, we may not all be white!
The cast for the movie of The Hunger Games has been known for a while, but a certain segment of the fandom is having a hard time coming to terms with something about it: Namely, that Rue and Thresh, both described in the book as dark-skinned, will be played by African-American actors. Worse, so will Cinna, whose ethnicity isn't mentioned, and therefore must be white.

Hunger Games Tweets has been keeping its eye on some of the worse elements. Warning: Some extremely vile, racist language. Did you know that sweet, innocent girls must always be pale and fair-haired? And gay men can't be black? I'm telling you, it's an education.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go vomit.


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[info]isaiddietpepsi
2012-03-14 09:45 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, but it's still not really a given name, I think? More like...just a word. I figured if she could give people like Seamus and Igor and Padma and Parvati names that were actual first names, she could have done the same for Cho. You have a point that Rowling likes to give her characters Very Meaningful Names, but that's usually only the case for the "non-ethnic"-ized characters, if that makes sense. Like the aforementioned characters all have very traditional/stereotypical names for their ethnicities, and then you have the characters like Remus Lupin and Draco Malfoy, who seem to have been in a different naming category altogether. And I'm pretty sure that none of this is making sense because I'm being incredibly inarticulate right now.

(And this is where you tell me that I'm 100% wrong and that "cho" actually is a name for people of Sino-Japanese descent, heh. :D)

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