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Pretty much thinking along the same lines. There is something a bit off with the Yank's obsession with splitting hair over race issues.
There was also that recent uproar over a white actress playing a character that was meant to be mixed race.
starfish&coffee-
There was also that recent uproar over a white actress playing a character that was meant to be mixed race.
One of the big issues around that isn't about the actor's ability to portray a character outside of her own race but, despite there being a wealth of actors appropriate to the character's racial identification, is that it keeps happening. Over and over again. And almost universally, it's white actors portraying non-white roles.
There's a very thin argument that gets put about that there a lack of non-white actors with the the level of profile that there are for white actors. Of course there's a lack. The high profile and leading roles keep going to white actors, even when the characters aren't white. Argo, Prince of Persia, A Beautiful Mind, A Mighty Heart, Cloud Atlas, The Social Network, Traffic, 21, The Lone Ranger...
The list really does just go on and, just to make matters worse, that list includes portrayals of real life non-white people as white on screen. I suppose you could class objecting to that as "a bit off" and "splitting hairs", but you could also class the fairly sidespread practice as a bit fucking shit.
The_Seldom_Killer
I may have been totally overthinking this, but given that it's morally / ethically / legally / culturally acceptable to self-identify as other gender / transgender, isn't there a case that a person could identify as another ethnicity?