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Niki :
Turkey was not there then though …. Please I agree with you but Paris was Greek . Also Troy or Troya was not Turkish then.
2026-07-18 21:12:28
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R.🍉 :
funny enough rami malek in night of the museum was a good casting since hese ACTUALLY EGYPTIAN. but media had a problem with him 🤦🏽♀️
2026-07-16 22:44:10
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Ursa Micro :
I've been having SUCH an issue with Matt Damon as Odysseus not only because he looks NORTHERN European,but because he literally looks like a Jedi. with the costume he has. So that combined with everyone saying "it's fiction and we shouldn't care for accuracy" bro... we might not wear ancient clothing but Greeks do exist to this day, idk why people act like we don't. I just never imagined the Odysseus I've known since childhood to look like a Dune inspired Jedi Viking, that's all
2026-07-17 09:11:24
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✨Ιορδανια✨ :
Thank you for this take. I’m black and Greek and honestly the discourse around this is tiring
2026-07-17 04:24:01
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TessyK. :
Agreed. I’ve been saying the whole cast should have been Greek. I just don’t like the wave of racist backlash Lupita has gotten, when practically no one on the cast is Greek or Turkish.
2026-07-17 07:50:53
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🍒🧈 :
As a Persian I'm still mad about the prince of Persia and 300 and I know all other Persians are too
2026-07-17 00:37:53
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wildflowah :
and they said "it's fiction", as if the folklore or stories did not set in that specific area thus telling the culture and the people from that specific area
2026-07-16 23:41:07
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Yasmine :
thank you for speaking up about this. can you please post these videos on Instagram??
2026-07-18 19:53:56
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deanchristakos :
Paris was not Turkish. Turkey is as we know it today did not exist until well into the medieval period.
2026-07-16 20:58:10
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lovebunny :
Like the large majority of movies about Egypt features white people and white leads only. Idk why people are feigning to be racist when it's clearly a Hollywood and western issue not a race thing.
2026-07-16 23:03:06
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🍉 :
when it comes to us it's always "fiction"
2026-07-17 03:06:03
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𝐃 :
The one piece live action casting for vivi aswell…
2026-07-17 05:28:34
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taffee :
i feel like ppl defending the casting are doing it purely bc it's christopher nolan and the cinemaphile circles love him, bc when it came to emerald fennell's wuthering heights, they understood that it's not okay to cast jacob elordi in place of a brown character. you would never see anyone say "it's just fiction" when it came to wuthering heights. but somehow it's okay to NOT cast a single greek person in the lead roles for the odyssey bc it's christopher nolan's movie.
2026-07-18 09:08:31
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sofia sparks :
You are absolutely right
2026-07-18 16:35:46
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:) :
jasmine is not solely arab. the character was already a product of orientalism and the mixing of two distinct cultures. as a result though, she is heavily inspired by south asia too. so don’t include her to say they’re taking away arab culture, they just didn’t include it in the actor choice. but the set/costume design does reflect the original mixing of cultures.
2026-07-16 23:49:56
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Сонцето 🪬𖤓 :
Another thing I’d like to bring to the table on this topic is how we as Mediterranean people have had our history commodified forever, but we have historically been erased from it. I’m Macedonian and Turkish diaspora, my family had to westernise and Americanise themselves after immigration because they were not the “ideal” people. Had to change their names, stop speaking their languages, and the culture is just being left behind. My family had Greek passports (though they were Macedonians, they fled the genocide) but that wasn’t magically something that got them appreciated in the west. Americans love to talk about a romanticised Greek history and culture and mythology, they love to talk about Greco-Roman history, many parts of the US are named after places in the Mediterranean because you were well educated if you knew the philosophy and the history of the Mediterranean world and it made it desirable for western people. But those of us who are from there don’t get the benefits of the idea the western mind has created about this region. We aren’t the face of our own culture and history because we aren’t what people have created in their mind about us, and they’d rather place themselves there instead of us. Western people will cast themselves in place of us, they’ll put on a nazar and wear some gold jewellery and eat hummus and talk about their vacation to İstanbul or Athens because the Mediterranean is a playground, and we are a fictional commodity to the western world. Our stories and cultures are just something they can grab off the shelf at a store, and it makes it hard for us to live those cultures now
2026-07-16 17:43:31
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Inessova 🇹🇳 🇵🇸 :
yes they want to erase us. but also, that's their industry. maybe we should make our own movies to show ourselves. like the Asians do. Bollywood is doing it for decades. chinese, korean, japanese are expanding.. so we need to make our own.. even come together as Mediterranean..
2026-07-17 09:22:50
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Phoenix M.B. :
I hate that the criticism of casting, which is mostly white people, gets mixed up with r4cist complaints about the occasional black person. The reason they cast black people in those roles occasionally is because they are "traditionally" played by white people, and so because they don't recognise the importance of casting people from those actual regions, they open the roles up to black people to be progressive instead. It's a well-meaning but misguided move, because they haven't addressed the underlying white supremacist issue, they've just papered over it with modern progressivism. The roles are still filled with 90% white people & theft of heritage from the native populations continues to be normalised. (And since you mentioned an Israeli being involved in this erasure, & the fact that native peoples of regions of the middle east are continually mischaracterised as just arab, I'll add: Free Palestine 🇵🇸)
2026-07-17 08:29:20
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hasanifilms :
Can’t believe this film has me defending Greece as an Albanian
2026-07-17 12:36:36
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Dihya Mona :
besides we are still speaking out indigenous languages and practice our indigenous cultures! i am sick and tired of people pretending that there isn't milliona of amazigh speaking north africans who still live in our historical villages to this day
2026-07-16 23:03:47
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no :
I was so mad when they cast an Indian actress to play vivi in the one piece live action even though countless EGYPTIAN and other Arab actresses who were great at acting auditioned for the role 🤦🏻🤦🏻
2026-07-17 05:21:34
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moonvald :
I'd like to share bc I think this might be helpful to someone else out there learning about this, but I grew up around "New Age" spiritualism which is one of the systems that steals from and misappropriates ancient Egyptian religion. In trying to deconstruct, I've done a lot of research about repatriation of stolen artifacts and contributed to causes that fund these efforts. If someone finds themselves interested in ancient history, it's equally important to care about current geopolitical conditions of the cultures that emerged in these places. To fellow western people, I encourage you to listen to these conversations and be judicious about what you consume, while doing what you can to decolonize. We can do better.
2026-07-16 16:52:41
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