The important difference being, that Rue is explicitly described as black in the books :) (rather than it being implicit in the name, as with Cho Chang).
Tom
On 30 March 2013 17:24, Shlomi Fish shlomif@shlomifish.org wrote:
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:29:11 -0400 Joseph Reagle joseph.2011@reagle.org wrote:
Interesting, this reminds me of the ignorant tweeps who believed (despite the text) that the character Rue in *Hunger Games* was white and asked "Why is Rue Black?" in the movie.
Do folks know of other examples of this?
Well, admittedly, I find it hard to visualise characters based on their descriptions in the text. For example, I didn't picture http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Cho_Chang as belonging to Asian descent necessarily, even though I presumed she may have been. Then I saw her as Asian in one of the Harry Potter films.
Regards,
Shlomi FishOn 03/30/2013 03:52 AM, Jane Darnell wrote:
Did anyone see this? A popular blogger on Science (with more than 4 million followers) is a woman. The woman herself, Elise Andrew, had no idea it was a secret, and she was "outed" when she announced her twitter account featuring a picture of herself. Apparently the bias occurred because of the swear word on her facebook page which made readers assume she was a man. Interesting conclusion! This is a facebook hype that deserves a WP page, no?
article is here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/us-news-blog/2013/mar/20/i-love-science-wo...
facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience The TV interview with Dr. Michio Kaku on CBS morning show is here: http://cbsn.ws/109mAEL
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