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Describe what comes to your mind when you hear the term Eurocentric ideals. Do this in 2-3 words.

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The lack of representation in film due to Eurocentric ideals. 

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The lack of representation in film due to Eurocentric ideals. 

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People of minority groups have always faced a lack of representation in media. Unfortunately, they have been told that they do not fit into the mold of whiteness that is pushed in the Global North.

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" Star Wars: The Force Awakens" fans are menaced by the Chinese poster for the upcoming sci-fi epic.

The poster has sparked controversy online over stylistic changes, one of which resulted in the diminished presence of John Boyega 's lightsaber-wielding character.

Here are some tweets about the poster:
https://twitter.com/SohoGuy/status/672511908898086913
Aside from giving BB-8 more prominence, the biggest discrepancy between the two posters is the shrinking of Boyega's Finn and the positioning of his body. Boyega, who plays a lead role, is lowered down from the original poster - where he's the third largest character after Adam Driver's Kylo Ren and Daisy Ridley's Rey - and tucked under Harrison Ford's gun-toting Han Solo and Carrie Fisher's Leia, and behind a much lager BB-8.

Meanwhile, other non-white characters, including Oscar Isaac, who plays rebel pilot Poe Dameron, Lupita Nyong'o, who plays alien pirate Maz Kanata, and Chewbacca have been cut out altogether. They're replaced by X-wings, TIE fighters and rows of Stormtroopers.

The poster was released earlier this week along with the announcement of the film's release date in the country. "Star Wars" hits theaters in China on Jan. 9 - about a month after its worldwide release on Dec. 18. Some of the movie's stars are expected to attend the gala premiere in China.

The casting of a black actor, Boyega, in the role of a Stormtrooper, was initially met with backlash. "To whom it may concern ... Get used to it," Boyega said late last year about the issue.

In a similar recent incident, Lionsgate was forced to recall marketing material for "12 Years a Slave," after posters in Italy featured Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender at the expense of star Chiwetel Ejiofor.
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'Star Wars' China Poster Sparks Controversy After Shrinking John Boyega's Character

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" Star Wars: The Force Awakens" fans are menaced by the Chinese poster for the upcoming sci-fi epic. The poster has sparked controversy online over stylistic changes, one of which resulted in the diminished presence of John Boyega 's lightsaber-wielding character.

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Black women are subjugated to many tropes in film, with many of them being dangerous towards mental health. They box black women into unreasonable standards, and the strong black woman trope exemplifies this.

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The Negative Effects Of The 'Strong Black Woman' Stereotype | AJ+

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In many Hollywood films, there is a trope giving female Asian characters color in their hair. This is used to symbolize rebelliousness in media. Adrienne Rich discusses in her work how society views homosexuality as "deviant and abhorrent." Society views it as straying away from normativity and therefore, dangerous. This idea is shown through this trope, viewing these female Asian women as dangerous and straying away from normativity. This is dangerous for viewers because it constrains them to a box to fit in.

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One of my favorite movies of the early 2010s was Pacific Rim, a Guillermo del Toro film about giant fighting robots. (What? It's an accurate description.) But there was one thing about the movie that didn't sit quite right, and it was the blue streaks they put in Rinko Kikuchi's hair so that she could play the "rebellious" Mako Mori.

Because, you know. The viewer isn't going to be able to tell that Mako is an independent thinker without that bit of blue.

Aspiring young animator Anne Shi previously brought up this Hollywood hair trend on Twitter. The Asian hair streak is such a prevalent phenomenon that it has its own page on TV Tropes, and it's a pretty simple one to follow. In order to let the audience know that the East Asian supporting female character in their movie is American levels of "cool and rebellious," Hollywood ensures that she has a few choice streaks of either red, blue, or purple in her hair.

When contrasted against dark brown or black hair, these streaks of color are coded to read as rebellious, independent, and unique - something to set these characters apart from the rest of their race. The same color of highlights can read very differently depending on who's wearing them, and how that look has been culturally coded. Lavender streaks, for instance, might be portrayed as rebellious in black hair, but mermaid-y in blonde hair.

And these streaks of color aren't just popping up in live action films, either. Animated characters like Nikki Wong from 6teen, Miko Nakadai from Transformers Prime, and GoGo Tomago in Big Hero 6 all have streaks of color in their hair, too. So what's behind the streak? Twitter seems to have a pretty good idea...

Here's the problem with giving Asian women a hair streak to let us know that they're cool: It only works if you assume that the majority of Asian women are meek and submissive. By saying, "this hair streak makes independent thinkers identifiable, and shows us that they're different from 'regular' Asian women," you're implying that any Asian woman who still has her natural hair color is part of an almost hive-like submission - and that simply isn't true.

I have yet to meet a single Asian woman in the real world who didn't have a rich internal life, and that's one of the many things that makes this trend so problematic. It suggests that these writers probably don't have a lot of dynamic Asian women in their lives; they're working off of a stereotype, and they assume that the rest of us will be, too.

If you're going to give us a rebellious Asian woman on the screen, that's great! But don't shoehorn in a hair streak so that the audience will be able to intuit her entire personality from it. Show us that she's an independent thinker. Show us that Asian women are just as diverse a group as any other, and use the words, actions, and interactions of your characters to make that obvious.

America is ready for diverse, thoughtful Asian characters. It's time for Hollywood to catch up.

Related: Why Telling Someone They Have "Exotic" Beauty Isn't Really a Compliment

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Stop Calling Asian Women With Colorful Hair "Rebellious"

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One of my favorite movies of the early 2010s was Pacific Rim, a Guillermo del Toro film about giant fighting robots. (What? It's an accurate description.) But there was one thing about the movie that didn't sit quite right, and it was the blue streaks they put in Rinko Kikuchi's hair so that she could play the "rebellious" Mako Mori.

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I had an interview with a close black friend of mine who is a film student at the University of South Carolina. We talked about representation in film and media and this is what they had to say when talking about coming of age movies.

"I think especially as someone that enjoys coming of age movies, it can feel, I don't want to say frustrating, but I can consume and relate to movies like Ladybird(2017) or the aesthetic of girlhood movies. But, at the same time, I'm not seeing myself and I think especially with coming of age, that is one of the formative times of your life. All of these universal experiences that we have don't just happen to white people."

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Transgender representation has been lacking and non-existent in mainstream media and Hollywood. When there is representation, there is also continuous hatred that comes with that. One of the first memories I have of transgender representation is in the TV show, The Umbrella Academy(2019). The actor Elliot Page transitioned and his character transitioned with him.

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Have you seen this lack of representation in film and media? 