Do you think the same should be true in say Bollywood or Asian cinema for example?
If you are asking “Do I think that under-represented people in Bollywood or Asian cinema are (to a limited degree) more entitled to be protective of their existing representation?” - then yes.
For the sake of illustrating this, a hypothetical:
- Assume Bollywood makes movies just for India.
- Assume that India has a 5% white population.
- Assume that there is a very small (less than 5%) number of white people in leading Bollywood roles, across that catalogue of film.
- Assume that there is a white character in a popular long-standing defunct tv series.
- That TV show is being remade, and the casting of that character is being reconsidered.
That being the case, I think it would be logical and reasonable for a white Indian person to say:
“Hey - we are currently underrepresented in this catalogue of film, so for now I’d really rather you didn’t race swap this role as it may erode our representation even further.”
^ that does not mean that the role
must be given to a white person. Instead, it’s simply reasonable for a person to be more sensitive to his own lack of representation in the media.
I made this point because there was a sentiment along the lines of: “other races always moan about race swaps” in the thread and I’m suggesting that this is a reason why: they have been underrepresented, so they are more sensitive to the issue. Their actual race (white / black etc) is entirely incident. It’s the under representation that matters.
Does that now make more sense?
In addition,
@Junglist makes a good point above, in that Western demographics tend to be more diverse than others. I would expect the lack of diversity in Bollywood to broadly reflect that audience.
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