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There have been a number of controversies surrounding race and video games, including public debates about Resident Evil 5, [36] Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization, [37] Left 4 Dead 2, BioShock Infinite, Homefront, World of Warcraft, [38] Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Genshin Impact. [39] [40]
As applied to entertainment, whitewashing generally refers to the practice of casting White actors in non-White roles in order to appeal to larger audiences, at the expense of diverse representation.
Whitewashing is the act of minimizing or covering up vices, crimes or scandals, or of exonerating the guilty by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data with the intention to improve someone's reputation.
Whitewash, calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, asbestis or lime paint is a type of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH) 2) or chalk (calcium carbonate, CaCO 3), sometimes known as "whiting". Various other additives are sometimes used.
The practice is as old as Hollywood itself. In cinema's early days, whitewashing was overt. ... In some instances, whitewashing is so bad that studios completely ignore race and pretend its not ...
Genshin Impact [b] is a 2020 action role-playing video game produced by MiHoYo/HoYoverse. [ c ] The game features an anime -style open world environment and an action-based battle system using elemental magic and character-switching.
Head of Christ by Warner Sallman (1941) is the most widely reproduced image of Jesus, despite the fact that he was a Hebrew man from the Middle East. Whitewashing in art is the practice of altering the racial identity of historical and mythological figures in art as a part of a larger pattern of erasing and distorting the histories and contributions of non-whites.
Here, Genshin reasserts the traditional Tendai Buddhist view of nembutsu meaning mindfulness (e.g. contemplation) of the Buddha. This chapter also explores why the nembutsu was effective, including an exploration of Amitabha Buddha's power to rescue sentient beings, etc.