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• state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Or look at Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. Or John Wayne in Gengis Khan.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.

    Cleopatra was by ancestry mostly Greek. So I don’t get what you mean.

    Most of her subjects weren’t quite “black” either.

    Sorry for this interjection, but I hate wrong corrections, especially when they give up cute chains of thought like “queen of (hellenistic, that’s my own addition) Egypt -> Egypt’s in the African continent -> black”.

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    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, the thing a lot of people seem to miss is just how major of a geographic barrier the Sahara is. As a consequence, northern Africans weren’t generally very black for most of history.

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    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I never said she should’ve been black. But some milktoast British lady is still several shades lighter than any Egyptian in history.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Greek and ME people sometimes look very light. And face powders too exist.

        So I wouldn’t say there’s anything too weird with her appearance. I suppose portrayal of Americans in North Korean war films is weirder.

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  • doug@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or Emma Stone in Aloha, or Max Minghella in The Social Network, or Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange.

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