Name: 為什麼電影中那麼多亞洲角色都染了頭髮？ (Why So Many Asian Characters In Movies Have Dyed Hair)
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基礎被動語態

It's a shortcut used by Hollywood and the comic book world

to signal that a character is rebellious or edgy.

Back in 2014, the Tumblr blog Writing with Color

found 12, and there have been more since.

And for the most part, it's just a boring, racist trope.

with purple hair streaks is just like kind of ridiculous.

the non-diversity of Hollywood and popular media.

Representations of Asians in American popular culture

And so, if you only have a few Asians ever appearing,

then of course it's going to take on a significance

It wouldn't happen with white characters,

because there's so many white characters.

of Asian women in film and TV in a 1988 documentary,

The most common representations of Asian women

Or as kind of sinister, dragon lady types

The deracinated ones that I mentioned are usually

It's been an issue that's gone through 50 years,

and it never really has gotten a whole lot better.

And you won't eat better Thai food in Bangkok.

Mainly, there were just no central characters.

It starts by giving Asian Americans control

to write the story, it will come out completely different

and that was in the silent film era in the early talkies,

Although she played mostly Dragon Ladies,

she was in some B movies that she had a voice

She was usually like an adventuresome doctor

or some businessperson, or something like that.

And what we want is just somebody who's a complicated

human being, the way we know ourselves to be.

We could deal with Dragon Ladies and Madame Butterflies

if we had lots of other things there, too.

By comparison, white females were only missing from 7 films.

More East Asian women are needed on screen.

And there needs to be more diverse characters.

And if they're rebellious, they don't need streaks

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