Update: Latest rumor shows casting for a white Ciri | Original: Netflix looking for non-white actress to play Ciri in the Witcher tv series

[DonFerrari]

Runa216 said:

DonFerrari said:

Yet we have seem much more people complaining about using white actors for Death Note.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but usually fans of a work prefer it as pure as possible to the source. Some even complain about good changes that are needed just to translate from one medium to another, imagine ridiculous swaps done only to brownie points.

Then some fans misunderstand the very nature of adaptation. Things change. The world changes. And if the showrunners feel that doing this might allow them more room or make the cast more diverse or can use it to tell new stories or deepen the character, then I'm all there. HEll, even if it's just affirmative action, that's a better reason to chose a minority than 'purity' is to keep them white. Like, people do know how racist that makes them sound, right? "Let's keep the white roles pure!"

So in adaptation does that world explains that heritage is something completely different where you don't get the genetic or traits from your parents?

sundin13 said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

Not only Japanese, I'm including all countries that aren't majority "white" (as if everybody that have "white skin" were the same), did you miss Bolywood?

So it's unreasonable to force other countries to change their culture (I guess then Witcher belongs to American culture?) but it's ok to demand USA change their own to "be inclusive" to foreign culture? Or when they adapt other country original work and make it american being offended is right or wrong?