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Lisandro

This is a racist list by itself. Aren't there white puertoricans or persian? It's like american rednecks call all latinamerican “mexicans”
Happyfeet

Also the whole freakin cast of Avatar
Guest

Rita Moreno never played Maria in West Side Story on Broadway. Carol Lawrence did. And while she was nominated for a Tony, she didn't win. Rita Moreno's role (Anita) was created by Chita Rivera on Broadway.
lurker

I like how most of the main cast in the Prince of Persia have middle eastern ancestry [Ben Kingsley is Indian, Gyllenhaal is a Jew, etc.] which sort of cancels out the assumed racism.

Jynx712

Also wasn’t his character an adopted street urchin. I don’t think he was actually meant to be native Persian. He was a Prince of Persia because he was treated like his son.

Lauren

I have to agree with you there. People are uneducated when it comes to ethnic groups.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/UAZAYDJ5QN6Y75KEAEPQT5O4HA ruth

Actually, Genghis Khan was Howard Hughes pet project. He refused to release it to theaters and kept it for his personal enjoyment for years. It's also the reason most of the cast eventually died of cancer in some form because it was filmed in the same area as the atom bomb tests that were going on. A fact they weren't too happy about.
Calic

i don't get how this is racist.

ehehe
kr1st0f

Charlton Heston as Ramon Miguel Vargas in 'A Touch Of Evil'.
Desmond G C Nel

Apparently “21″ was quite racist.
Rob

Casting Natalie Wood as Maria was racist? You've got to be kidding me.
Heimdal

http://www.comicvine.com/news/idris-elba-cast-a… this is perhaps even “intentional”. The aesir god known as the “whitest and fairest of them all”, will be portrayed by a BLACK man. Pathetic…
Squishynothers

The recent “10,000 B.C”.
Brklyngirl4life219

Well, I'm a light-skinned Puerto Rican and and my friends make fun of me by calling me “Goya” as in the Spanish cracker. People usually confuse me for other ethnicities as well, so not all of us look the same. You're right.
Danyeller1980

Actually (& y’all, don’t hate me for being a know-it-all or whatever, but) John Wayne IS a little Mongolian! 16,000-ish years ago the people who are the present day Mongolian population had a chunk of them cross over a now non-existant “land bridge” between the northern parts of the eastern Asian Continent & the western North American Continent. Every Native American tribe that has ever existed has descended from those who crossed over the land bridge. John Wayne is part Apache, so he’s really part ancient Mongolian.

Gtard

By that logic one can argue that every modern ethnic group is an ancient African. So when do I get my shot at playing a brotha?

Danyeller1980

Betcha didn’t know that ;J
Smoog

Anyone seen ‘Vertical Limits’? It has Temuera Morrison – a Maori from New Zealand playing a Pakistani Helicopter pilot. He’s a damn good actor except he can’t lose his kiwi accent, even when he’s speaking in Pakistani. Guess there are Indians/Pakistanis actors…
He also played Jango Fett but I guess you can’t really accuse Hollywood of racist casting as Jango is an alien

Tem was in ‘Once were Warriors’, a NZ movie about a severely dysfunctional Maori family. One of his mates in that movie was Cliff Curtis, who is a fantastic actor.
He’s since appeared in several Hollywood movies playing basically every coloured race out there, other than Maori. He’s played a Columbian terrorist in ‘Collateral Damage’, Pablo Escobar in ‘Blow’, a Cuban in ‘Runaway Jury’ and a Mexican gangster in ‘Training Day’. Hollywood had to hire a Maori from New Zealand to play these roles because, presumably, there aren’t any Latinos in Los Angelos…
He’s also played a a Kurdish fighter in ‘Three Kings’ and an Iranian in ‘Crossing Over’ (again, we must assume that there are no Middle Eastern actors in Hollywood).
At least Hollywood is finally choosing a dark skinned actor to play these roles and not just hiring a blond white guy and sending a gopher off to the nearest shoe shop for some polish. Guess it is progress of a sorts.
Smoog

Anyone seen ‘Vertical Limits’? It has Temuera Morrison – a Maori from New Zealand playing a Pakistani Helicopter pilot. He’s a damn good actor except he can’t lose his kiwi accent, even when he’s speaking in Pakistani. Guess there are Indians/Pakistanis actors…
He also played Jango Fett but I guess you can’t really accuse Hollywood of racist casting as Jango is an alien

Tem was in ‘Once were Warriors’, a NZ movie about a severely dysfunctional Maori family. One of his mates in that movie was Cliff Curtis, who is a fantastic actor.
He’s since appeared in several Hollywood movies playing basically every coloured race out there, other than Maori. He’s played a Columbian terrorist in ‘Collateral Damage’, Pablo Escobar in ‘Blow’, a Cuban in ‘Runaway Jury’ and a Mexican gangster in ‘Training Day’. Hollywood had to hire a Maori from New Zealand to play these roles because, presumably, there aren’t any Latinos in Los Angelos…
He’s also played a a Kurdish fighter in ‘Three Kings’ and an Iranian in ‘Crossing Over’ (again, we must assume that there are no Middle Eastern actors in Hollywood).
At least Hollywood is finally choosing a dark skinned actor to play these roles and not just hiring a blond white guy and sending a gopher off to the nearest shoe shop for some polish. Guess it is progress of a sorts.
Shira

The fact that you think anyone who’s not the ethnicity of the part shouldn’t be allowed to act as that role is racist, you’re a hypocrite
Zonny2008

I wish that the person who post this come to Puerto Rico and realizes that there are a lot of white skinned Puerto Ricans.
Zonny2008

I wish that the person who post this come to Puerto Rico and realizes that there are a lot of white skinned Puerto Ricans.
Susana Holt

No worst casting than Chuck Connors playing Geronimo.

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