1. It is not
2. Are you a racial minority?
1. That means nothing. More explanation other then acting like your comment is fact does not help.
2. Not white. But i am surprised it would even matter in the discussion what race the participants of the conversation are.
I'm of two minds about it. On one hand there are plenty of good examples of VAs doing characters not of their race (Samurai Jack is a great example, but also Samuel L Jackson as Gin Rummy in Boondocks.) but at the same time I feel like, at least in some cases, it's more appropriate for the VA to match the character. Apu drew ire because it's a white man doing a very stereotypical indian accent whilst playing a stereotypical indian character. There's nothing inherently offensive about Apu imo; he's portrayed very positively. But I do think a lot of his stereotypes and whatnot would be more appropriate with an actual indian person voicing him.
Ok. But we have proof of it working well. With jack. Just recently they redid bosco in sam and max, and new bosco just did not work. Voice did not match the character.
Are we trying to equate the animated characters to races, as if they were actors? I could see that a little. But then, no jack if that rule is inforced perfectly. I mean. I saw recently people getting up in arms about knuckles and how he is supposed to be voiced by a black person. It is an echnidna.
But. Thinking about it. I can see some of the reasoning. If you write a story about an asian, getting an asian actor, animated or live does make sense.
I did read while looking around that there was a hoopla of people being mad others were writing stories about other races. Mainly a white dude writing a stort story about an asian lady. Are people getting mad about that? Or is all that hyperbole?
