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Louis Wu (from Ringworld) is from ~2600 AD, long after the Earth's races have been thoroughly mixed. Hiro Protagonist is half Korean, half Black. Neither char
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Louis Wu (from Ringworld) is from ~2600 AD, long after the Earth's races have been thoroughly mixed.
Hiro Protagonist is half Korean, half Black.
Neither character is "Asian", as that term is generally interpreted in the United States today.
Marcus Chong would've made a great Hiro, back in the day, but I'm afraid he's too old for the part now. Actually, he would would have been a good choice for Wu as well. I wonder if Tommy Chong has any grandchildren by now? :-)
- lolwat____ 9y agoTank from Matrix? Hell yeah he would have been a great choice. Just getting more diversity for the male lead would be great in so many ways.
- crooked-v 9y agoNeither character is "Asian", but nor is either is a white guy, which is the point of the comment you're replying to.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoMaking them "Asian" would be exactly as wrong as making them "white guys", no more, no less.
- lolwat____ 9y agoWell why not? Just as a lot of characters have been rewritten to be white, why not rewrite some characters to be non white.
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- InternetOfStuff 9y ago> Hiro Protagonist I had read the book twice already, and it took me listening to the audio book and hearing the name said out loud to realise that it was a pun :-) Call me childish, but I still have to giggle every time I remember his name.
- yoodenvranx 9y agoI read that book like 10 times and I never got that. Thanks for the hint!
- falsedan 9y agoI you loved that 'joke', then get this: in Quicksilver, Jack Shaftoe ends up working at an animal hospital as a human blood bag, feeding the bloodsucking insects. He get the job since the local workers are refusing to work as a negotiating tactic, so the owner employs him as an outsider. The work entails that he sustain multiple bloody injuries, so he gets covered with what he literally is: a scab. I prefer David's Foster Wallace's gymnosophist in Infinite Jest, who literally never moved from the gym.
- mercer 9y agoI'm not sure why, but Lyle was one of my favorite characters in the book. I never got the joke until now though.
- Animats 9y agoHawaii Five-0 just got "whitewashed". Grace Park and Daniel Dae Kim were fired when they demanded pay parity with the two lead white guys.