Originally Posted by Ross Hendrie
That's not the same, if it had been a Chinese actor playing a Japanese character or vice-versa it might be similar. But you clearly just don't understand.
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There's a difference between not understanding and not being blinded by some delusional sense of national pride. We understand it alright, we just don't follow it.
We're all the same species. A country is just lines in dirt. Considering we have the ability to communicate instantly across the planet and travel anywhere on it in less than 20 hours, racial or nationalistic pride today is really nothing more than a useless relic of the past. We're one global community now. Learn to deal with it.
Originally Posted by Chris Britton
Actually I think I do. Sulu was meant to represent all Eastern Asians on the Enterprise, Japanese, Chinese and Koreans for example.
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If he was supposed to represent Japan, they wouldn't have called him 'Sulu'... There is no 'L' sound in Japanese.