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The ideal casting of Avatar: The Last Airbender
See the effects of this generation's possessing mp3 players and iPods: a hearing test.
A comic describing the typical college student, newly graduated.
An neat-o retro dress I wish I could try on
This is a clearly biased source, but Arizona School Demands Black, Latino Students' Faces on Mural be Changed to White. Oh, Arizona, you're regressing. What was that thing called? Oh, yeah... The Civil Rights Movement!
And on a related note, what if the Winchester brothers were POC(people of color) and happened to have a case in Arizona?
Avatar: The Last Airbender not only was full of race fail and a terrible movie, but had a douchebag of a director who completely misses the whole point of the Race Fail activism.
More reasons why Twilight is made of fail, as if there weren't already enough. More also in the comments.
History shows homosexuality is not a product of these modern times.
She proves that the Governator shouldn't have pulled funding on education:
The Newsies dance to Bad Romance:
Super Junior promoting their country for the World Cup! And if this video shows the average, Korean people are gorgeous.
When watching this, I actually want a puppy just like this one!
I guess Dodge doesn't sell cars in Britain.
Would you slide if you saw this on you commute?
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Perfect for those GIANT parking lots. Careful with the eggs though. And keep your eyes peeled around 1:25. ;)
Optical illusions are marvelous!
For the gamers out there, Mario made classy:
We all just need a little bit of love:
The ideal casting of Avatar: The Last Airbender
See the effects of this generation's possessing mp3 players and iPods: a hearing test.
A comic describing the typical college student, newly graduated.
An neat-o retro dress I wish I could try on
This is a clearly biased source, but Arizona School Demands Black, Latino Students' Faces on Mural be Changed to White. Oh, Arizona, you're regressing. What was that thing called? Oh, yeah... The Civil Rights Movement!
And on a related note, what if the Winchester brothers were POC(people of color) and happened to have a case in Arizona?
Avatar: The Last Airbender not only was full of race fail and a terrible movie, but had a douchebag of a director who completely misses the whole point of the Race Fail activism.
More reasons why Twilight is made of fail, as if there weren't already enough. More also in the comments.
History shows homosexuality is not a product of these modern times.
She proves that the Governator shouldn't have pulled funding on education:
The Newsies dance to Bad Romance:
Super Junior promoting their country for the World Cup! And if this video shows the average, Korean people are gorgeous.
When watching this, I actually want a puppy just like this one!
I guess Dodge doesn't sell cars in Britain.
Would you slide if you saw this on you commute?
Music made by tools:
Perfect for those GIANT parking lots. Careful with the eggs though. And keep your eyes peeled around 1:25. ;)
Optical illusions are marvelous!
For the gamers out there, Mario made classy:
We all just need a little bit of love:
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Date: 2010-07-24 05:33 am (UTC)Arizona's actions are the first to be so definite and that's probably what's causing a lot of the uproar. A lot of Californians mutter about illegal immigrants taking away jobs from the natural-born citizens, so we are a bit hypocritical. Still, other news articles I've read have given me the impression that what Arizona has done is endangering the rights of minorities, the legal ones, somehow.
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The flak about Airbender is that everything was white-washed. Truth to be told, the creators of the show said it was based on Inuit culture, but I really just wanted to see a block buster that had a minority/non-Caucasian-dominated cast. Too many movies have only token-black, token-Asian, token-whatever characters and the heroes are, across the board 99% white. Unless the movie is imported from another country. If I want to see a movie with an Asian hero, I have to watch a Chinese movie with subtitles and being Asian American, that sucks.
As to show being completely fictional, that's true, but there is a very obvious Eastern influence and making the cast white (Katara's skin glows in the dark, seriously), loses a lot of the atmosphere. Also, there are different nations, yet all the main cast/characters, each who represent one of the nations, are white? This just isn't realistic when you're trying to build a whole other world. The Earth had its different races, doesn't it?
Also, the show uses Chinese characters--it's Asian.