Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "The Lotus Blossom Stereotype - Dangers of the Asian Fetish" video.

@saratapalova8238 stop generalising all "white people". It is nonsense. That whole concept of whiteness is just itself a made-up thing from colonial past, and for a long time plenty of European ethnic groups were not treated as "real whites" in English-speaking countries. The fact that you buy into "white vs POC" dichotomy is the result of centuries of racist brainwashing itself
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@saratapalova8238 ethnic stereotypes is one issue, whether the ethnicity in question is broadly considered to be of the "same race" or not. Xenophobia is always xenophobia
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It is ok to cast an actor of any ethnicity as long as they look rather similar, but surely, the same ethnicity should always be preferable. I am also tired of them casting non-Russians for Russian characters when there are many Russian actors available
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@thecastleofenlightenment2604 Russia doesn't view people by race, but by ethnicity, and yeah, we have plenty of native Asian and mixed ethnic groups, and also plenty of ethnic Russians, who are clearly racially mixed, because ethnicity and race are different things. And they all deserve representation. I would say our mainstream media doesn't portray Russian ethnic diversity enough, but at least many regions-republics in Russian have their own media which produce their own movies, TV shows etc. portraying local cultures
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True. I am Russian, and I noticed stereotypes about all Eastern European women and women from former USSR, and I also cannot even imagine how bad it should be for Asian-looking women from Russia, they actually are fetishized by both ethnic Russian and foreign men, which is very creepy
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Same that such kind of men think about Eastern European women. I am from Russia, and I think most of women here certainly don't fit the definition of "traditional" wife in Western sense of the world. At least because here, even in cases when a woman is trapped in gender stereotypes, and believes in all that, and does all the house chores herself etc etc, she still works full time, and would never understand a demand of being a full-time housewife if she doesn't want to be one
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