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sundin13 on 11 September 2018
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DonFerrari said:
sundin13 said:

How many black actors are there in Japan who can speak fluent Japanese? I'd wager not many.  How many black actors are there in America who can speak fluent English? Likely dozens of thousands.

This isn't a good point until you can show that there is an underserved population of actors willing to serve in those theoretical positions. From a quick google search showing one African American who became famous in Japanese commercials and a second showing another African American comedian who became a TV regular, it actually seems like Japan would welcome diversity if they had more of it available.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/7xwa99/meet-the-black-comedian-who-has-become-japans-most-unlikely-star

So we aren't going to demand them that they do shows that could have a white person talking another language and redub him (Arnold and Jackie Chan were redubbed for a long time)? Or demand that they make content that someone talking another language would be natural? Or that talking another language and the difficulty to adapt?

No, we aren't.

The issue with your comparison between the Japanese movie industry and the American movie industry is that they are fundamentally different and the pool of actors they serve are fundamentally different. However, even if they were identical, it still wouldn't really be the place of a bunch of Americans (or Westerners) to insist upon a cultural change in a foreign nation (assuming the original culture isn't violating human rights or anything that is outside of the scope of this conversation). It is the role of Americans to influence change in our own media. It is not hypocrisy for an American to request greater diversity in the media created in this country but not do the same for Bollywood. That is a fairly unreasonable expectation.