Is lack of gender/racial diversity valid criticism?

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Peh said:

Azuren said:
I just don't like having characters' ethnicities changed for modern adaptions. For example, Johnny Storm in the most recent Fantastic Four train wreck. Why is he black and his sister is white?

Then there's basic Hollywood whitewashing and (more recently) Japanese yellowwashing. Yes, I'm call Japan out of that shit: all of the characters in both Fullmetal Alchemist and Attack on Titan are German/European... So why the fuck are they all played by Japanese people now?

 

That's a good point about japan live-action adaptions. I always asume that the characters are european. I mean, some look like that and Attack on Titan uses germany as an inspiration. The live action adaption of Attack on Titan looked really awful. Just the same issue with Sailor Moon.

I kinda feel that way in general, considering just how much anime characters feature traditionally european features like light colored hair, blue/green eyes, white skin, etc.