• Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    So in that case, Americans can only play Americans, Brits can only play Brits etc.

    It’s noticeable how this week’s russian psyop style Hollywood furore is over a black actress playing a fictional greek character not Americans and Brits playing fictional greek characters

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      People like you are the reason why I specifically chose the words: “Any too obviously genetically impossible traits”

      Americans and brits do not look clearly different. Similar enough.

      But you must have skipped that part of what I wrote or have just jumped to a knee-jerk answer after the first words?

      Also: americans are a nation of immigrants. Except the few native Americans, so they can be realistically be played by a wild mix.

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          Top 10 countries of origin for non native Americans which are like 99% of America today:

          Top ten countries of origin for Americans (non-native)

          1. Germany ~14% 4–7 generations ago
          2. Africa (Sub-S) ~12% 8–15 generations ago (enslaved)
          3. Mexico ~11% 1–5 generations ago
          4. Ireland ~10% 4–7 generations ago
          5. England ~8% 8–15 generations ago
          6. Italy ~5.5% 4–5 generations ago
          7. Poland ~3% 4–5 generations ago
          8. France ~2.6% 6–14 generations ago
          9. Scotland ~1.9% 5–10 generations ago
          10. Norway ~1.4% 4–7 generations ago

          (1 generation ≈ 25 years. Based on US Census self-reported ancestry.)

          Those meager few generations don’t do anything for defining a specific look. Americans are genetically just everything thrown together while pretending to be “established”.

          And these are just top ten. Look at how many percent are still open to be filled with a large number of small percentage origins…