Lol - you obviously have never been to Hawaii 🤣🤣🤣 and I’m not sure you’re emotionally intelligent enough to have a discussion without getting offended. It is very common place in Hawaii for both natives and folks who were just born there (especially like the actress who plays Nani who had family from Hawaii with indigenous roots lol) to use this type of terminology - also that was a legitimate question not supposed to be a “dig.” lol. The bottom line is this which can’t really be debated: I understand the importance of accurate representation, especially in culturally significant stories like Lilo & Stitch. But I think calling this casting choice an example of colorism oversimplifies things. Skin tone among Native Hawaiians and Polynesians varies widely, and judging someone’s “authenticity” based solely on how dark their skin is can be just as reductive as the problem being criticized.
Instead of focusing only on appearance, shouldn’t we also consider the actress’s talent, the respect she brings to the role, and her personal or cultural connection? Dismissing someone based on skin color alone can unintentionally create new forms of bias while trying to fight old ones
Have you looked at this young woman’s family? Her family’s skin color is quite dark. It sounds like you are quite obsessed with skin-color. If I was a mixed raced Polynesian, Filipino, and white I would be highly offended at your comments. Before you go profiling strangers and actors/actresses maybe get the facts straight. Great movie great cast and again your post is quite degrading and I feel sorry for that poor actress because of people like yourself who are focused on the wrong things in this life.
I'm sorry the last time I checked her family isn't in the movie, SHE is. Idgaf what her family looks like. Please read a book about colorism in the U.S. with slavery and the caste systems based on skin color in East and South Asian countries and get back to me.
She’s Hawaiian - at the end of the day Lilo’s sister was supposed to be Hawaiian and on top of that she shares the same roots as the original character. Colorism was a term coined in the 80’s by an Pulitzer Prize winner activist lol…. Irrelevant (again another opinion). If people like yourself would stop being obsessed with skin color and feeling like you or certain races are constantly discrimanated against we might not have such a big issue. I would suggest just watching movies for what they are and enjoying the joy they bring instead of writing opinionated college papers on them. Terms such as these are for more divisive than they are uniting. At my last job African Americans would refer to members of the race who had a light skin tone as “light skin” in a derogatory manner…. This exists because of authors such as Alice Walker. Far more prejudice and divisive than uniting because of authors such as her and “coined terminology” such as “colorism.”
"Instead of writing college papers on them" babe you are literally on an essay writing platform.....??? Saying that colorism is irrelevant yet not explaining why other than saying it was coined in the 80s. A white person surely has "roots" that involve Black people's blood but that doesn't mean they should be cast in a civil rights movie. Distant ancestry is irrelevant here.
Being Hawaiian and FROM Hawaii are not the same. I would suggest you shutting up and leaving my page if you don't have the intellectual capacity for this conversation.
Just curious…. Where does it say in the plot this family is native Hawaiian or descendants of the original Polynesian inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands?
Just curious, why do you need it spelled out to you when they are dark skinned and speak words indigenous to the culture? If a movie takes place in Africa, with dark skinned people speaking Igbo and English, do you need the plot to tell you they're African? Or are you just a dummy?
Great post. I don't know how i never knew before, but i had no idea zoe saldaña was cast as nina simone... and they literally darkened her skin... hollywood is a mess, my god.
Lol - you obviously have never been to Hawaii 🤣🤣🤣 and I’m not sure you’re emotionally intelligent enough to have a discussion without getting offended. It is very common place in Hawaii for both natives and folks who were just born there (especially like the actress who plays Nani who had family from Hawaii with indigenous roots lol) to use this type of terminology - also that was a legitimate question not supposed to be a “dig.” lol. The bottom line is this which can’t really be debated: I understand the importance of accurate representation, especially in culturally significant stories like Lilo & Stitch. But I think calling this casting choice an example of colorism oversimplifies things. Skin tone among Native Hawaiians and Polynesians varies widely, and judging someone’s “authenticity” based solely on how dark their skin is can be just as reductive as the problem being criticized.
Instead of focusing only on appearance, shouldn’t we also consider the actress’s talent, the respect she brings to the role, and her personal or cultural connection? Dismissing someone based on skin color alone can unintentionally create new forms of bias while trying to fight old ones
Have you looked at this young woman’s family? Her family’s skin color is quite dark. It sounds like you are quite obsessed with skin-color. If I was a mixed raced Polynesian, Filipino, and white I would be highly offended at your comments. Before you go profiling strangers and actors/actresses maybe get the facts straight. Great movie great cast and again your post is quite degrading and I feel sorry for that poor actress because of people like yourself who are focused on the wrong things in this life.
I'm sorry the last time I checked her family isn't in the movie, SHE is. Idgaf what her family looks like. Please read a book about colorism in the U.S. with slavery and the caste systems based on skin color in East and South Asian countries and get back to me.
She’s Hawaiian - at the end of the day Lilo’s sister was supposed to be Hawaiian and on top of that she shares the same roots as the original character. Colorism was a term coined in the 80’s by an Pulitzer Prize winner activist lol…. Irrelevant (again another opinion). If people like yourself would stop being obsessed with skin color and feeling like you or certain races are constantly discrimanated against we might not have such a big issue. I would suggest just watching movies for what they are and enjoying the joy they bring instead of writing opinionated college papers on them. Terms such as these are for more divisive than they are uniting. At my last job African Americans would refer to members of the race who had a light skin tone as “light skin” in a derogatory manner…. This exists because of authors such as Alice Walker. Far more prejudice and divisive than uniting because of authors such as her and “coined terminology” such as “colorism.”
"Instead of writing college papers on them" babe you are literally on an essay writing platform.....??? Saying that colorism is irrelevant yet not explaining why other than saying it was coined in the 80s. A white person surely has "roots" that involve Black people's blood but that doesn't mean they should be cast in a civil rights movie. Distant ancestry is irrelevant here.
Being Hawaiian and FROM Hawaii are not the same. I would suggest you shutting up and leaving my page if you don't have the intellectual capacity for this conversation.
Just curious…. Where does it say in the plot this family is native Hawaiian or descendants of the original Polynesian inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands?
Just curious, why do you need it spelled out to you when they are dark skinned and speak words indigenous to the culture? If a movie takes place in Africa, with dark skinned people speaking Igbo and English, do you need the plot to tell you they're African? Or are you just a dummy?
Thank you! And hoooo yeah it was a whole Thing for a bit when she was cast but if you weren't tuned in you def could have missed The Discourse
I'm also so confused why they are remaking HP in general. Hoo boy.
Great post. I don't know how i never knew before, but i had no idea zoe saldaña was cast as nina simone... and they literally darkened her skin... hollywood is a mess, my god.