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Avatar Film Set Exposes Ongoing Whitewashing

March 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Here’s an interesting piece from the Aang Ain’t White Journal on how the Avatar film set is further exposing the production as a racist whitewash. Here is a sample of the images they put up on their site:

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  • 1 Christina // Jun 5, 2009 at 10:17 am

    Regarding the first picture I believe that it is accurate because Sokka and Katara are of Inuit descent and people from that backround did live in housing such as this:

    http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/polar/images/lc_inuithut_sm.jpg

    BUT the actors that where chosen to play these character are definetly not!

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