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Apparently, this happened when I didn’t notice it:


When it was initially released in Denmark, Soul was celebrated for its depiction of a black jazz musician who goes on a joyful life journey — voiced by Jamie Foxx in the American release. But it wasn’t long before the same media that praised the film began hammering it because the cast hired to translate the American film into Danish lacked black actors, the blog Film reported.
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Nikolaj Lie Kaas, the white actor who was hired for Soul’s Danish release, felt enough pressure to jump to his Facebook account to put out a statement saying that he thinks that the actor “who can perform the work in the best possible way [should] get the job.”
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Some dubbing studios and directors in Europe say that they don’t focus on race because their job is to try and approximate the original character’s sound, not fill a racial quota.

“The best dubbing should pass by completely undetected,” Juan Logar, a leading Spanish dubbing director and voice actor, told the New York Times. “My job is to find the voice that best matches the original. Black, white, Asian, it doesn’t matter.”
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You guys can read the rest if you’re interested, but it’s pretty funny that this ”cancel culture” phase is legit making people think that only black voice actors should only just voice fictional black characters from a Disney movie.
 
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So literally these crazies are saying Soul should never have a foreign dub given how homogeneous a lot of these places are to the point they're legit lacking in black voice-actors (never mind that America has a very small pool of actual black voice-actors).

Non-Americans are based as fuck when it comes to race relations.
 
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starborn427614 said:
If your character is deliberately going through a race-related story, then yeah get a VA of the same colour for authenticity's sake. Otherwise I don't think it matters.
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The problem with this idiotic line of reasoning is that a black person in Japan wouldn't have the same cultural upbringing as a black person in America. Skin color alone doesn't add any authenticity to the performance where there isn't also a shared culture or heritage.
 
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Stab You in the Back said:
The problem with this idiotic line of reasoning is that a black person in Japan wouldn't have the same cultural upbringing as a black person in America. Skin color alone doesn't add any authenticity to the performance where there isn't also a shared culture or heritage.
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Yeah you have a point there. I guess it's not as simple as I first thought.
 
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This reminds me of when people were losing their minds about a musical that originally had a Latino cast being performed in East Asian countries.
 
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Stab You in the Back said:
The problem with this idiotic line of reasoning is that a black person in Japan wouldn't have the same cultural upbringing as a black person in America. Skin color alone doesn't add any authenticity to the performance where there isn't also a shared culture or heritage.
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I'm sure of the half-dozen black people in Japan at least four are USA-jins
 
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so i was trying to watch ducktales (the original god i hate having to specify) on plus and for some reason i got that annoying "cultural instentivies disclamier." I admit it's obnoxious to sit through but at least they're actually showing something that might trigger people, even if you have to warn them first...but here's the thing. Ducktales aired from 87 to 90. Who was making culturally insensitive jokes in the late 80? On an animated show no less?


then I found out a possible reason why. apparently in the episode "once a dime." there's a scene where scrooge is arrested for wearing a kilt in public which is mistaken for a dress, (because once upon a time it used to be ILLEGAL for men to wear women's clothes in public) and the cop who arrested him says his apparence is "unmanly" and "unamerican."

so yeah, apparently that would hurt the feelings of all the troons running around today (chris, jim sterling,) and they had to disclaimer it. Oh well at least they didn't outright memory hole the episode.
 
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then I found out a possible reason why. apparently in the episode "once a dime." there's a scene where scrooge is arrested for wearing a kilt in public which is mistaken for a dress, (because once upon a time it used to be ILLEGAL for men to wear women's clothes in public) and the cop who arrested him says his apparence is "unmanly" and "unamerican."
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sounds like they were making fun of americans that dont understand foreign culture, i don't know how that is considered offensive
 
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Pickle Dick said:
sounds like they were making fun of americans that dont understand foreign culture, i don't know how that is considered offensive
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maybe but still, it feels like they added the disclaimer in just to be sure. The slightest joke that can seem harmless even a generation or two ago can set off the mobs of crybabies today.


oh and apparently they slapped the disclaimer on slaudos amigos and the three caballeros....ya know the movies made specifically to showcase Spanish culture? Hell amigos was made specifically for Brazil, in the hopes that it would convince the Brazilians NOT to ally with the Nazis the way japan had.
 
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horrorfan89 said:
Who was making culturally insensitive jokes in the late 80? On an animated show no less?
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Well, Glomgold did sometimes disguise himself as a Saudi, maybe that's it? Or any time they traveled somewhere foreign maybe? It's weird because nothing in DuckTales is really bad, they even changed Glomgold's ethnicity to avoid controversy about apartheid in South Africa.
 
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