Looking at the cast I realize that in my head the characters weren't quite so white.
I always thought of District 1+2 tributes as Collins' version of Aryan Youth, so their whiteness was expected, but concur on the rest of them. I'd have been happier if it wasn't so starkly segregated so that the District 11 was some kind of black ghetto.
On the other hand, it IS a dystopic universe.
ETA: the only tribute in the photo not from districts 1, 2, 11 and 12 is Foxface, right? Maybe we'll have more diversity in the rest (although most of them die without getting any lines...)
I think they simply cast everybody white they could get away with casting white - only Rue and Thresh are specifically described as dark-skinned in the books. It's possible that some of the other, more throwaway characters are other races, though; really, the book concentrates on the Careers, Rue, Thresh, Katniss, and Peeta.
I kind of imagine the Districts being segregated along racial lines, actually.
I always thought of District 1+2 tributes as Collins' version of Aryan Youth, so their whiteness was expected
I think that's it, I was expecting their whiteness to stand out more against the rest of the tributes. But you're right, there are the other tributes that aren't featured here.
Gale is hotter than Peeta.
No. Shit. I know who I'm rooting for.
Finnick.
I know, wrong book. I'm still Team Finnick. Er, not as a BF for Katniss, or anything. Just...Team Finnick For Everything Ever.
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(Except, of course, as a BF for Katniss.)
Yay, Team Finnick! We should make hats.
I definitely saw Katniss, for example, as less clearly-anglo (dark hair, olive-skinned). Lots of "generically ethnic" characters.
I don't mean to imply that y'all look alike, but surely Katniss as cast does have dark hair. This isn't like "Dean is blond" all over again, is it? However, I also don't know what Anglo looks like, so I'm talking from my left buttcheek.
She does, but she's clearly a White Girl. Like, even if I dyed my hair very dark, I would continue to be obviously White (I use "anglo" instead of "White". I blame Colorado.)
Partially because of 1)there's only so much physiological diversity of humanity 2)most people have mixed-ethnicity backgrounds and 3)Between Hollywood casting non-white characters with people of different non-white backgrounds and "seeing what we know" (trying to put people into familiar boxes)...there are a lot of people who, if one were to try to categorize, would probably go into the "not White" category for most people, but there would be a lot of different answers for "okay, then what?" I know that Hil, for example, has had people think she had a huge varieties of ethnic backgrounds (usually, iirc, whatever was common in the area).
Anyway, the idea originally came from looking at dolls who seemed to be designed so that the kid could project whatever ethnicity he/she wanted onto it. Which is rather how I read Katniss's description of herself, especially it would mean that she
comes from a mixed-race family, which adds an interesting aspect to the story and her relationship to Prim.
Of course, I don't really know what Anglo looks like, either, a lot of time, and I am really bad at "guess the ethnic background" (which is far from something I worry about)
Anglo, to me, means really typically British -- creamy skin, fair hair, light eyes. But that's not completely "British," either, since some of those traits came from the Vikings, right?
Yeah, I can see that. In Colorado (at least where I was), it was to differentiate from Hispanic.
