For brown and black folks here..

If you are watching say a movie with ensemble cast .. whom do you associate with more deeply? Do you associate more with the white cast or with the PoC cast ?
I ask this keeping two things in mind
1) Both of them have layers . They have stories that resonate with your lives . Guilt grief joy all of it .
2) Keep a non judgemental and kind perspective.

Today as I was watching The series BEAR .. i realised how much I was unconsciously resonating with the white cast more than the black cast .. like skipping the black people story plots .. but as I stopped and dived deeper I realised I am very much like Sydney.. a bold little impatient yet decisive young black girl.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

I wonder if everything to do with this differs substantially between countries. Race and family history seems to be a much bigger question in the US than in some other countries.

I think I connect with characters who are most like me in upbringing, education, political, and moral views rather than colour, ethnic origin, etc. Well, perhaps not my actual background and views but those I think I have or would like to others to believe I have :-)

What puts me off a character in a series or film are things like the character speaking a dialect or language that I can't understand or simply mumbling their lines.

As for the cast, I generally don't care one way or another. I'm much more interested in the characters that they are playing unless I can see that the casting is saying something; for instance the casting of Ruby Commey as Germania in Rammstein's Deutschland video.

bijouxbroussard · F

@ninalanyon Regardless of the country, I find that there are always more concerns among the people of color if they’re the minority.