White Washing in Hollywood

Let's talk. 

I mean serious stuff. Something has been deeply on my mind. I must get it out. 

First, let's talk about what whitewashing is. Many people do it and don't even realise it. 

It seems like throughout history it is been socially acceptable. People think this is a black- white issue. in fact, it is not. This is a cultural issue. 

There is a series of movies that Disney has decided to re-do. You know, the Disney Animated movies? They have decided to re-do Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and Mulan is being re-done in an all Chinese cast. Wow, great. Let's not offend the Chinese. This is good, however, Aladdin,very loosely based on 1,001 Nights, which is a tale coming from the Persian Empire and one of the oldest tales, which has Central Asian and Persian influenced backgrounds, has been casted by Guy Richie, who is a big screen and likes the "Go big or go home" action type movies, has casted Will Smith as "The Genie" And Jafar is casted by some White English Dude. Jasmine is casted as an English Born ethnic person with absolutely NO Indian, Persian, Non Central Asian background. 

If I were to revamp this movie, I would use 

Jasmine: Nazanin Boniani

I would have a list of other actors and characters for you. But, This isn't about just Disney whitewashing Every damn movie they do (Yeah, yeah, Walt Disney was a racist, we get it, but really, come on, Disney Studios shouldn't be anymore) 

There are other movies that has done the same. 

Johnny Depp as a Native American in "The Lone Ranger"

Emma Stone as a Hawaiian in "Aloha" We shouldn't expect less from Adam Sandlers though. He made the Polynesians look bad in "50 First Dates"   

In "Argo" Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez, who is half- Mexican. Tony Mendez said that he doesn't consider himself Mexican.

Batman: Liam Neeson as Ra's al Ghul, in the comics he is depicted as an Arab

Breakfast at Tiffany's, Mickey Rooney plays an Asian man

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, a Persian is played by Jake Gyllenhaal, a white actor

Short Circuit had an Indian main character played by Fisher Stevens, a white actor

Star Trek: Into Darkness has a villain named Khan Noon Singh (Indian or Pakistani, right?) played by Benedict Cumberbatch, and in the T.V. series the same villain was played by Ricardo Montalban, of European- Mexican descent. 

What is more shocking is that the movie, "The Social Network", which is supposed to be based on Divya Narendra, of Indian descent, co-founder of ConnectU, was played by Max Minghella, and to make matters worse, there are more and more people who refuse to look into the Indian Community of actors. The director of The Social Network said he looked "All over", naming London, Montreal, and Paris, and could not find anyone with his "Warren Beatty" suave- personality and good looks. REALLY? Hrithik Roshan,Dev Patel, Ameet Chana, Kunal Nyyar, Jay Sean, Upen Patel, Imran Khan, Adam Beach, Aziz Ansari, Kal Penn, Aasif Mandvi... Just off the top of my head... I am sure there's a few hundred more I don't know... 

I think you all get the point. 

Going back to Aladdin, produced by Guy Richie. Will he not slaughter the movie like Disney already did in the animated series? 

I am not holding my breath on that one because I cringed at Aladdin and felt guilty when I bought the video for my kids, knowing it was not culturally acceptable and completely missed the point in the entire movie as far as the stereotypes, and while the actual story line was nice, they couldn't make it at all culturally acceptable.

Why does Hollywood do this? 

Don't get me wrong. I will post about the misconceptions Bollywood has about Americans. But, we get our ideas from the media, right? Humans must beware! 

Catching Up

So, I have a thing of things I say. I am actually quite funny and even sometimes profound. But, all that's said and done, I am original. 

So here's a few things that I said while I was not on here: 

"You're Fucking Kidding me, aren't you?"
(A certain someone decided to ask me, while smiling an impish grin, "Why isn't your husband here, again?" as the said person had actually had the nerve to get herself scammed of hundreds of thousands of dollars, while telling me that helping me by cosponsoring my husband was too risky and she could lose everything, of course, it was scripted, and just ass holey, because her motives for getting scammed of almost a million dollars, was purely selfish while helping me was absolutely just a kind act.)

(Me pointing to a shrine of a high school grad- student, freak, it's high school, to boot an 8x10 picture of a girl wearing a Native American War Head Dress): Yeah, I am not dealing with this today. (as I left the house, while my friends and associates just went, HAHAHA, Yeah, what?" Leave on a high note I say. 

I laughed so hard I had tears streaming down my legs. (yeah that was a conversation with a friend of mine and I... We were laughing and I thought that sounded funny, no, it didn't really happen, well, I have no witnesses, so no...)

Couple of sad things... 

Three weeks and two days ago I adopted a sweet little black bunny (color of husband's hair) with big beautiful brown eyes (Again the color of husband's eyes... Right?!?) After two weeks I was so allergic, that after cleaning thoroughly, my area were the bunny was, I am still suffering the allergies, I had to give her to my sister who after a week found a home for her... Happy moments are crushed by bits of the sad parts.  

I have survived this horrible stomach virus and today am starting to feel better... 
I think by Friday I will be able to sit in the sun again. 

The bright side of this? I don't have ebola virus and, who knows, maybe LongRock will get his ass here. 

I'm peacing out for now.  

How To Get Screwed Over

So, a couple weeks ago I posted a phone number with what this number in Jamaica has been doing. Let me tell you more. 

Last January, a person I know, got a phone call from their "Grandchild" saying that she was in trouble and asking for money. They realized it wasn't their kin, so they hung up. A few days later, they got a phone call  from this guy, the same phone number, saying they owed money to the I.R.S. and that if they didn't send money, they will call the F.B.I. and they will put a lien on the property, and they would be going to prison. When this didn't work, yet, the victims were still talking to them, the Jamaica people told them they are the F.B.I. and that they were in trouble and needed to send money to get out of their debts. A few months ago They also got a phone call saying that their computer was messed up and that "Microsoft" was telling them they would help them with their laptops.
Then came all the phone calls, every 4 minutes. Sometimes every minute. In just 3 hour time period, they got more than 350 missed phone calls. 
Fast forward to a couple of months ago. 
Same people called, but this time in a local number, called to say they won 2.5 million dollars. All they had to do was send a 10,000 dollar check to them, and they would get their money. They fell for it, among sending almost a million dollars to them over the last couple of months. They were also told in a letter, that the F.B.I. knows about them being scammed, and to send a form back to them, and they will be able to help catch the crooks. They did. Almost a million dollars later, 4 new phone numbers, thousands of harassing phone calls, a Lock Smith called, three taxis, 3 wellness checks from the sheriff, and 6 pizzas brought to their house later, I told my employers I would quit if they did not call the Sheriff to come out and make a formal investigation on these crooks. 

So, here is what NOT to do...
First, The I.R.S. will never call you and threaten you over the phone. 
The F.B.I. will never contact you through a letter, when you have been scammed. 
The I.R.S. will not threaten to work with the F.B.I. if you are late paying your taxes by one year, and they will only work with the F.B.I. in rare occasions, but they will not talk to you in a manner that you feel like you are threatened. Also, when you pay the I.R.S. certain districts will have you send money at certain addresses. (i.e. if you are in Utah, you will send the money to a different I.R.S. facility than a person in Florida)     
The F.B.I. will not send you pizza. 
If you are told you won money, you never have to pay a person to get said money. This is fraud. 
If someone calls you and tells you they are in trouble, you ask them their name, and who is the person and what they are in trouble for. Don't give them any information, example, never say the name of the person who you think it is, make them say who it is. 
Never give any information to someone on the phone. If they call you, they need to tell you who they are and not the other way around.  
If you register your phone number on the no call list, to put a number on the no call list for complaints takes 31 days from the day you register your number on the no call list. 
If someone is continually harassing you, you have every right to be rude to them and not use phone etiquette. In fact, you don't have answer them all the time, in fact, don't answer them. 
If you are sending people money freely, you will not be protected by the F.D.I.C. because of you being an idiot.
If you report this scams to the Sheriff or Police, do NOT withhold information to them, because it will prolong the investigation, and work with them! Don't withhold information like "I sent money to them with Western Union" because you look like you are sympathetic to the scammers. 
Aaaaand Lastly, if you are going to be a jerk and give money freely to someone who is scamming you, and not listen to your employee or your child, and tell them to back when you are being scammed, don't expect said people to feel bad for you later. It's your fault.