chaoticwarrior12 they had some diversity they just got the races wrong the fire nation was based on imperial Japan and they made them Indian.

Yes... yes it was...

AND Deathnote!

And Ghost in a shell and Alita

[through tears] There is no movie in Ba Sing Se, there is no movie in Ba Sing Se, there is no

I mean, to be FAIR that actually WOULD be rather progressive. Though this was SUPER cringey OMG.

Is male prostitution progressive in anyway? I mean... It's been done in films and has been a thing for centuries in real life... Idk if it's been around as long as the female prostitutes due to the whole... Fact all females were at one point basically property being exchanged between men... But after that... Totally.

@@jocomfiresin6982 It's a joke.

@@bdaarmy9736 Yes and?

I mean, there's nothing more progressive than selling human beings, it's not like the united states fought a whole civil war to stop a similar practice (please do note that I speak in sarcasm, there's NOTHING progressive about prostitution and other exploitative practices).

that hurt from a Korean bro

CCP

For real lol

Cuz the racism is like daily meal for asians

ZAW YE HTET eh racism is daily for black people too but they speak up and fight for their rights

Trapp is asian!?

@@psysch96 yeah I think he's 1/8th? maybe 1/4. You can hear about it in that sketch about the Asian Council :)

@@rosievolts4967 that makes sense, I was always confused by that scetch

He looks white though so it's fine.

@@psysch96 his grandfather was korean according to the sketch. he looked less white before he lost the weight (no underlying jab there he literally did)

hellobubble I agree! Zac's sketches have been even more amazing lately though

Yeah I don't get it, Isn't Zach basically the whole reason Tide Pods are such a rage nowadays? I blame him for that craze wether he is or not, he sure sold me on how delicious they look.

My favourites are Zach, Ally, Katie and Raika!

Loves someone. Spells their name wrong

hellobubble They say that because Grant looks like Keith from BuzzFeed

Well to be fair Dragonball doesn't take place in Japan either. The entire world is fictional.

@@nicholashayes5773 you have a main character called Goku, (character from journey to the west), who met and beated king cow(another character from journey to the west), has a grandpa called Gohan (also chinese, han means cooked rice), met a kongfu master, and summon a dragon, shenlong, literally Chinese spelling. But sure, it could happen anywhere.

Let’s be honest here, the whitewashing was the least of the things wrong with that movie, the list of which is longer than the list of things that weren’t wrong with it.

Also death note live

@@StevenZephyc yeah but satan city, west city, mount pazou, and etc. Doesnt exist in real life...not just that goku couldnt be asian since he doesnt born on earth

So i wan't the only one who noticed!

I'm a Siobhan and I'm so desensitized to people spelling it wrong that I didn't even notice until you pointed it out!

@@shevvied6331 sorry chevonne

@@shevvied6331 sorry shivon

shevvie D sorry Xivonngh

tries to eat burger with mask on

And i feel like even 5 years ago there weren't a lot of other popular comedy vehicles where you could get an Asian American perspective, i mean snl for example only got bowen yang as a cast member starting 2019, i feel like zac and cynthia must've really broken some barriers for ppl

Social media has always been quick to prop up the voices of the bigoted, it gets more engagement that way...

+doppleganger07 Hey i hate oversensitive, preachy crossfitting vegan sjw's. And don't oppress my right to be offended by easily offended people.

+lubbnetobb See, I don't actually know if you're being sarcastic or not.

+LX give this man a grammy

+LX he's not. Edit: oops I thought you had replied to doppleganger, my mistake, he's probably being sarcastic.

+doppleganger07 so true mate

By like a quarter, but I get what you mean. 😃

@@haagenneldeberg6787 one eighth

+betotrono actually I find these all-talking sketch boring. It used to be ok when it was all Mike talking but eventually it became boring when he kept doing that. CH now away seems to force-feed viewers with their statements. The old casts were much more natural. I really miss Streeter, Dan, Josh. Theses casts aren't funny at all. Even Pat is not very funny from the beginning.

+Hoai Nam Le Tran I highly suspect that the people who talk about how it was better before have a skewed view because they were seeing the old content at younger age and thus may have had lower standards. much like we all thought our childhood cartoons were the best things ever. I would say the old collegehumor is certainly different from what we see now, but I would not say one is better that the other just that the collegehumor "campus" has changed and the "alumni" need to adapt or move on.

+Hoai Nam Le Tran I just want Emily back, cos now the only really funny one is Trapp.

+Reggin Backwards Trapp is good but he doesn't have that vibe, I don't know, I feel like I can see him acting, not like with Streeter or Josh.. I think he's trying too much. Emily is good, but I still feel Sarah is better. +wesbecool: not really, I only started watching "hardly working" recently, I feel that they are way more hilarious

I agree that I miss Emily. Mainly I was knocking the people who have an issue with the message of the skit, e.g. Hollywood's depiction of Asian people is fucked.

+Akshat Saraf no they are not

+Akshat Saraf give me an example where this "whitewashing is a problem?

+oliskranz You're probably not a minority so you'd never understand.

+blackknightkanos that's racist. And I am a minority technically. Asian's are a minority in the US. And I'm with olinskranz.

+oliskranz watch episode 4 of "Master of None" on Netflix, then you'll see how whitewashing is a problem.

From what I've seen, the writers feel that way all the time...

He killed pat

I think that’s what they were aiming for

I don't really know about this stuff, but surely if you want to punch him then that's good because he's trying to play a person you want to punch. So he's playing his character well

Thats.. why the sketch is good

I was thinking the same thing

+Daniel Wurzer He's half asian half white.

+Daniel Wurzer bada bum tsss

+SHREK Shrek's gonna rape zach

+Daniel Wurzer It's funny because not all people from the Caucasus are white.

+Aveyago why rape out of all the things you could of said lol

LightHawKnight because there are actually a lot of uneducated people who think they can only be racist to african americans.

This was actually brought up in the video. South East Asian people(s) aren't as vocal about representation as say, an Black American person or an Indian person.

A sizable portion of the film's cast was Asian, including Takeshi Kitano. Also, the main character is in an artificial body.

not even the creator of Ghost in Shell cared about the race of the main protagonist....

Not as many people watched or heard of that movie.

sandshadow close minded mouth breather

also idiots like yourself

Yup, tons of anti-white racism all over.

You guys just proved white shadows point

Sure whatever you say

I try not to

That movie should be in the dictionary near the word whitewash so that people could get an understanding.

comics geek I wouldn't call it white washing, the fire Nation in the show looks Asian, in the movie they are Indian, and the water tribe in the show is Inuit, in the movie they are white.

that is whitewashing, all the water tribe people were Inuit except the main ones, Katara and Sokka, which is like a 'wtf' situation. I'm pretty sure they could've found someone who's at least a poc to play them. And about the fire nation, I'm not as mad to that as I am about the water tribe, but I'm pretty sure they could've found some Japanese people(which is clearly Fire Nation's race). Even though the story is still shit, it would be a better movie knowing that our beloved characters were portrayed good.

comics geek So you're mad if white people get an Inuit role, but not if Indian get a Japanese role? That's a ridiculous double standard. People get mad because a white person played the character in ghost in the shell, but no one cared that in Japan they had a Japanese superman. Its because it doesn't matter.

I don't see anyone calling Dave chapel an SJW for his sketch about the last samurai

Yeah, you're right.

+AnthonyLopez23456 I don't get it. Cast whoever you want in the rolls. The story is important, not what the actor was shaped like. Who cares what gene expressions someone else has? Weirdos.

+ChaosmanOne let's see if you could say that with someone like Tom Cruise cast as Solomon Northup in 12 years a slave. Just saying, sometimes it matters a little.

+ChaosmanOne it does matter if culture and race ARE the premise of a movie. in GITS the character can be interchanged, sure in last samurai he was a mercenary, but come one, the Mexican played by Brad pitt? it's not about diversity, it's about accuracy. points made in the sketch, their movie is about the last of a Japanese bloodline, so naturally the character should be japanese/asian.

Trappalan.

@@lt.boltzmann4116 Shaaaamaaaalaaaannnn

There is no Last Airbender by Shamalamadingdong in Ba Sing Se

I feel u !!

Well they're in California so they all identify as some quasi malleable gender fluid

You just never watched Starkid Musicals. There, your Bi nightmares would more come out

+Matthew Williams Bullshit*

+WizardXZD No no no, you missed his point. Zach is bae.

+Matthew Williams WTF is bae? I put it in google translate and nothing came up.

+apburner1 Slang for babe. And google translate is not only just for other languages (hence translate), not definitions, but it is also EXTREMELY unreliable. Take this from someone who is bilingual. I can't stress it enough.

+apburner1 It's an acronym for Before Anyone Else.

+Artist formerly known as Al-Mansura-Abbassid or Bob In the first drafts he was an asian, still played by Tom Cruise.

It kind of evens out seeing as they did a very favourable interpretation of the Samurai's motives.

+Artist formerly known as Al-Mansura-Abbassid or Bob I thought the Last Samurai was really Ken Watanabe.

+Artist formerly known as Al-Mansura-Abbassid or Bob bob is love bob is life

+William Bouet Tom Cruise also played an Asian character in Edge of Tomorrow.

Why is it racist? Racism is discrimination based on the belief that one's skin color makes them genetically superior. If Bollywood decides to skip out on the white actor based on race to appeal/relate to their primary audience it's a justifiable marketing tactic.

@@ericmanget4280 If Bollywood were to make a movie set in Kansas they are gonna cast an Indian

@franquis but Bollywood would almost never make a movie set in Kansas unless it was a movie about an immigrant. The thing that they brought up in this sketch is changing cultural relevance that stems from one country to help your own means for profit

@@ericmanget4280 How does something being tailored to generate more money exempt it from being called racist?

@@vincent-ls9lz I already explained why, because racism is the belief that one is genetically superior due to their race. That's not the mindset that marketing executives are taking on when they help determine who to cast.

It amazes me, not surprising though.

there are no ideas brought up. for example, when Japanese people were interviewed about a white person playing misato they were confused why Americans would be upset and had no problem with it. It's only middle class white teenagers who bitch about this so they can feel intellectual by just repeating things ad infinitum

+Zachary Bittner japanese people would not have the context to understand why it is problematic, they do know about how many times this happens so saying the people living in japan not seeing the issue is not very supportive of your point but rather misleading

wesbecool​ it sounds like you feel they need some reeducation so they can fully understand your perspective.

Awkole EC maybe because the ideas brought up in this video are bullshit snowflake theories

Me sitting at my computer not laughing "Wow, that comedy sketch relied on stereotyping Asians as Ninjas. How racist."

+Shane Rooney Your post isn't serious...is it?

Name me 1 ninja in REAL LIFE that isn't asian. I'm waiting.

Name one ninja that can beat a gun in war fare?

most of them, they were well trained in being extremely stealthy

+MattZ He's a halfy.

Koreans are pale, right?

Parker DW one 26th Korean

+Parker DW *twinkie

+MattZ couldnt tell. hes white. Or above white/asian ..clearly a superior masterrace hybrid.

Except he wasn’t, Katsumoto was the last samurai. Tom Cruise’s character isn’t a white saviour, he doesn’t save anything. His journey is one of personal growth and appreciation for samurai culture.

+AJSSPACEPLACE it's only racist if white people are involved

+Cinemaniac Jean He's saying that letting someone have a role because of their skin color is racist which technically it is since you're not letting people of any other race get a role specifically because of their race...that's textbook racism whether or not you are for or against it.

***** Care to elaborate?.

+Enablingbuzz Casting someone because their racial/cultural background matches that of the character's is NOT racism because it's not done out of hatred, it's done for the sake of logical coherence. Not allowing yourself to draw any distinction between races/genders/cultures for fear of being racist/sexist/whatever is absurd.

Christian Sumner But it is racist..you're denying someone a role because of their race. You don't have to disagree with something because it is racist but that clearly is.

cause asians typically dont give .5th of a shit about representation in movies, white people just getting offended over other races

that and they're more likely to be speaking down half the time while bowing.

u wot

Book Marker I

ameteuraspirant you didn’t even pretend that you’re not being racist lol cool man cool

+vandon pink Half-asian

+vandon pink i didn't realize trapp was american...

+NerdFluffington Half-American

vandon pink I didn't realize Half-Canadians are half canadian

Half European.

I guess this was a first then?

Italian=nationality Black=race so you can be Italian and black

+Angelo Gopaul wait a race is human race right?

+Angelo Gopaul okay true but what is a race than

OlivioE950 Yeah you're right. I should have specified, I'm White Italian and Black Belizian. It's even sillier when people call me African-American considering I'm not either of them :P

agreed

they're still slightly better… slightly...

+Xavier Smith Lol why are you butthurt?

+Xavier Smith THEY ARENT BUZZFEED (or i've read your comment wrong... one of the two)

+zachos 2000 You read it wrong. He said they have very Buzzfeed like humor in this video because white men amirite?

+Khalid AlNajjar News to me, too.

is it not obvious?

+Khalid AlNajjar Exactly my reaction... I love how it was assumed we knew in the beginning too.. I was like what's the problem Zac?

+Khalid AlNajjar His great great grandpa was friends with an asian once.

I was surprised about him being Asian when he died the Pho song

No it’s not

nice try 😂

+ZomBIEKAI4 sssssshhhhhhhhhh

+Playfulpanthress *cough cough* James bond

+Kyle Heaney Yeah, but this video addresses complaints about US made films involving foreign material that use white actors i.e. Ghost in the Shell.

+Kyle Heaney I'm not sure if you know, but "Jap" is considered a racial slur, and is quite offensive.

+Kyle Heaney America is 72% white California is less than that being full of non-while hispanics and people from Asia yet 90% of leading roles go to white people

I don't think it's even set on earth

@@octanemain1988 it isn't. It's slightly based on Poland (where the author is from) and has a lot of elements from Slavic mythologies but it's an entirely fictional place.

Yeah

Eh. I'm somebody who loves fantasy and historical fiction. The thing is, it just isn't realistic to have significant levels of racial (as opposed to ethnic) diversity in Medieval-esque settings unless it is specifically explained by the universe. For example, if the setting is a fictional equivalent of Byzantium as an urban centre at a continental crossroads or if you have some kind of highly internationalised organisation than moves people around, like the Roman military or, to a lesser extent, Catholic Church. This goes for non-'White' societies as well as White ones. - In RL, most of Medieval Europe _was_ very racially homogenous, in large part because people didn't have the means or incentive to migrate across continents to settle down in what were mostly rural societies (you can see this in fairy tales which betray comical levels of ignorance on the rare occasion non-European characters crop up). If you have fantasy settings that are even a little bit like Medieval Europe, this probably true there as well. - That being said, I don't really mind in most cases when you have a racially diverse cast in a series anyway, it does diminish immersion, but I guess its worth it if it feels more inclusive to a wider audience. What irks me is when people insist that it _is_ actually realistic to have a Black farmer in 14th century rural Shropshire...because theoretically a family of Ghanian traders _could_ have migrated there a generation ago and settled down to be farmers...for some reason? Or when, to support their argument, people dig out a handful of (often somewhat dubious) historical instances as if its evidence of anything.

@@merrymachiavelli2041 yeah but in the witcher they could have already went through a slave trade period causing a large amount of diversity in the kingdoms maybe they went through that period a couple hundred years before the game takes place and thus give enough time for freedom to be declared etc and making it similar to real life just still medieval

+Nick Bates Sometimes it's brown, mostly it's red.

+Nick Bates So how do you cast for a story about someone with a specific skin color and culture? Do you, as a casting agent, skin everyone alive so they bleed to death, hoping they will act out your director's scenes in the few seconds they have to live?

Bruce Ludlow We just CGI the shit out of them afterwards. Or we paint their skin the appropriate colour.

+Nick Bates i'm actually inside the pink.

*We're all red inside. Fixed. I checked.

lol

you f***ing genius bhahaahahahahaaaAHAAHAHAHahhaahahha

Unfortunately I went far enough already to get to your comment

+antenn0 Kingdom of Heaven

or maybe casting whites as blacks. or whites as Hispanics?

Huh?

How about casting caucasians with a dark tan as Native Americans! Yeaaahhh!

+CafeNightster or How about casting white people as ancient Egyptians?

He's half

+Artbug Since the day he was born

+Artbug Could you really not tell?

@artbug, people see race because of their nationalism beliefs. That is why they define zach as Asian.

THE EYES

How is making a sushi chef asian racist anyway? Every sushi place I have gone to has had the chefs being mainly asian. Sure some of the waiters and stuff are white and so forth, but the sushi chefs are always outright asian. Also good job making up a fictional story that never happens to justify your white racism.

Hollywood is proportional to the population of the country. 75% of america is white. In reality, blacks are the over-represented group in hollywood relative to their population.

HopOnTheHype you were so busy be dumb you missed the whole. He did not have to say they were white and you thought it up yourself and “white racism” is something said by racist when they are called for being racist. The point was that roles for people of color and taken by white people and stereotypical roles of given to real people of color.

@miyuki That's stupid, that has no relation to what my logic is. Actors act, Bill Murray isn't a greenskeeper, he plays the role of one. The asian actors aren't sushi chefs, what's your logic? Have actual sushi chefs take the roles of sushi chefs in films? No, hire an actor to do it, and in this case, probably an asian because that's who would be in such a situation usually. It's pretty simple: Asians make up 4% of the population, so of course they don't get equal representation.

0:09-0:14

I keep seeing it in their videos...

+Maximus Sparticus lol , ur funny and original

He looks mixed

Brandon Lee I think he’s half-Japanese, based on his last name (Oyama)

Yeah !?!?

Me either

He's Japanese on at least one side of his family.

More sjw nonsense like buzzfeed.

College.Its in the top right corner to copy

+dylan helsing If you want that, watch their Diet-racism video.

+dylan helsing completely agree with you it's fucking double standards =-)

+Seval Rathod This is the most accurate comic in this entire video. Kinda opened my eyes lol.

He's a half-blood. Not asian. They are their own category.

half-blood?

One of his parents was a witch/wizard?!

Carnivorous Smile you can be asian and latino they two aren't mutually exclusive. latino is not a race it is an ethnicity

We call them Wasians where I live, half-blood is kinda weird.

No one complains when white characters are played by minority actors, in fact I feel that Nick fury in the avengers absolutely nailed it. isn't the least racist thing you can do hire someone because of their skill as opposed to their race? and it's also kind of funny that they compare this skit to ghost in the shell as scarlet Johansson is more than qualified for the role she was cast as. Not casting her because of her race would be racist, wouldn't you agree?

+extremeslashr i mean, the thing about that is that youre implying that diversity and whitewashing are the same thing. its kind of like saying "nobody cares when theres male and female characters but its offensive when every character is male" like DUH unless the fact that every character is male is related to the plot it is a bad thing to have an all male cast and theres no reason to not have a woman. its a bad metaphor i know but you get what i mean

+Memes are a social construct theres something called...... hyperbole..........

+ava maclean isn't that point a view a little sexist / racist. it implies that people should be hired based on their skin color or genitals which is discriminatory. It wouldn't matter to me if the whole cast was all black, white, etc. as long as the movie was good. why does anyone care what race / gender people are as long as they can do the job and do it well.

+Memes are a social construct but my comment wasnt even about this specific video or argument. it was a joke about how sensitive people are to equality jfc