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I was speaking with Gene Yang (author of “American Born Chinese” and National Book Award nominee) about the casting and he said it best: “It’s like a white Asian fetishist’s wet dream. All the Asian culture they want, without any of the Asian people.”

J.R.R. Tolkien never specifically described his central human, and human-like, characters as being “Caucasian” or “European” (as far as I know) in “The Lord of the Rings”, but it would be pretty stupid to think they weren’t when the entire story and the world in which it was set came from an obvious extrapolation of medieval Europe. Why should it be any different for Avatar?

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