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Gender Inequality In Hollywood
Firstly, Hollywood do have responsibility to avoid stereotyping ethnicity characters because it creates inequality. Although Hollywood produce great movies and have great actors let not forget that not always Hollywood gives equal opportunity to other ethnicity. For example in the YouTube video “Yellow Faces”, it is more than clear that Hollywood are not equal to different ethnicity. Avatar casting in Hollywood was producing Air bender casting it stated, “Caucasian or any other ethnicity” which it is clearly they are looking for whites not another ethnicity. If the Avatar script is written by Asians why Hollywood do not give an opportunity to Asians. It is not right to have all the actors white they should at least give the ethnicity a chance

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