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26 Ways Hollywood Is Still Messing Up The Diversity Thing

There's a lot of bellyaching going on about how liberal Hollywood is -- which is weird, since that sort of mentality doesn't seem to translate to films. Because for as progressive as we like to imagine Tinsel Town is, the movies they put out show us a different, more depressing story.

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In Doctor Strange, the Ancient One, a Tibetan character in the comics, was portrayed by Tilda Swinton. This was due to the fact that Marvel felt the c

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2014's Exodus: Gods and Kings tells the story of the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt. AIl of the lead roles were given to white actors. Christian Bal

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CRACKED.COM In 88 years, only 1 woman and O black people have ever won the Oscar for Best Director.

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P $360 YO AD community Greendale Community College's dean Craig Pelton was a rare specimen on prime time TV a non-heterosexual character who wasn't ex

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Assassin's Creed games have had Italian, Middle Eastern and Native American main characters SO obviously YOU would cast... the irish-German Michael Fa

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Hollywood finally finds the perfect role for a Native American actress And they give it to the blindingly white PAN Rooney Mara CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM Every black winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Ever.

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M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender was based on the animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender. The TV series featured Asian and Inuit charact

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2015's Aloha is a movie set in Hawail, and it stars Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride and Alec Ba

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FORENSIC PHYSICS SCIENTIST PROFESSOR FEW SPEEDSTERS FROM The FLASH And THEIR CAREERS BEFORE GETTIN G POWERS FAST&FURIOUS STREETRACER

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Star Wars movies have done a good job of diversifying their male cast Which makes it stand out that all the women in the galaxy are white brunettes CR

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Walt The DisNEy Company's bold choices for their Studio Ghibli English Dubs. MYNEIGHBOR TOTORO Satsuki and Mei Kusakabe voiced by: Dakota and Elle Fan

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CRACKED.COM In Stuck, a movie based on the real-life story of Chante Mallard, an African-American, she is portrayed by Mena Suvari who wears cornrows

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MEET DISNEY'S FIRST BLACK PRINCESS TIANA THE FROG

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tuuttit AFTER THE #OSCARSSOWHITE CONTROVERSYT THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES WELCOMED IN 2016 683 NEW MEMBERS 46% OF THEM ARE WOMEN 4

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MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE LEAD HERO SECOND FIDDLE

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CRACKED.COM the twLihe new moon Casting Native Americans: Progressive. Casting them as violent savages that hate wearing clothes: Not so much

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IWI Which role should we give to our African- WESTWORLD American lead? The servant with no free will forced to obey every order from the white guy,

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CRACKEDCON IN MID-2017 WE'LL MEET MARVEL'S DEFENDERS Abandoning traditional gender roles, Jessica Jones is the team's most formidable member, strong e

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In Disney's Prince of Persia the main character, who is supposed to be MiDDLE-Eastern, is played by Jake Gyllenhaal. tisney PRINCE OF PERSIA PTHESANDS

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IN STAR WARS: THe Force AWAKENS, A STRONG, INTELLIGENT WOMAN IS FINALLY CAST AS A MAJOR VILLAIN... AND THEN OUICKLY PORTRAYED AS BEING UNABLE TO DEFEN

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