#just because we are nice and non-confrontational doesn't mean your capitalist asses can trample over us and use us as a marketing device

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Not to start discourse but the fact that Disney made Raya and the Last Dragon about a “Southeast Asian” girl and trying to pass it off as representation as if there aren’t like three hundred different cultures in SEA and also the fact that there is only one (1) SEAsian in the entire main cast is exactly what is wrong with the film industry in this essay I will

#stop sleeping on southeast asians this has been a psa #just because we are nice and non-confrontational doesn't mean your capitalist asses can trample over us and use us as a marketing device #I can name a handful of actors/actresses that are at least half SEAsian like #this is stupid #michelle yeoh??? #isa briones??? #tony jaa??? #or even henry golding??? #jesus #neways #raya and the last dragon #southeast asian representation #representation #I am so pissed like #they claimed they did research and they didn't even go to all SEAsian countries for it #and if you look at the designs most of them are inspired by indochinese culture #and in case you are unaware #indochina is geografically SEAsian but culturally more east asian than the rest of SEA #once again #I hear raya is a good movie representing SEAsians I will personally strangle you