User blog comment:HazelQuill7445/Awesome fan art/@comment-24573226-20160611150426/@comment-4010415-20160611161805

I agree with diversity needing to be encouraged in live action because that affects actual, living, existing people. In real life, there are POC actors who tend to have a somewhat narrower scope of acting opportunities than white actors do. Many of the roles that POC can land are... type casts/stereotypes/whatever, and they get tired of it.

For fuck's sake, in the most recent live action Peter Pan movie, they cast a girl whose skin was white as fucking snow as Tiger Lily, the Native American. A Native American actress actually auditioned for the role, and they told her "We don't need a Native American actress." What the fuck?

In animation, though, it doesn't have quite as much of an impact, unless we're talking about voice actors. Don't get me wrong, diversity in animation does still have an impact. A lot of little kids like seeing characters who look like them.

And honestly, these days, when I see something where all the characters/important characters are white (or they have just that one token POC character), it feels a bit boring and bland to me, especially if the white characters are all practically the same, like the same body type and shit like that. Variety makes things more interesting to look at.

That said, if you're making a movie that takes place in, say, China, especially if it takes place centuries or millennia ago, I'm not gonna complain that all the characters are Chinese because duh, China.