{"id":8001,"date":"2016-12-04T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2018-02-18T23:57:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T23:57:19","slug":"characters-are-what-really-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2016\/12\/04\/characters-are-what-really-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Characters Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/characters-3.jpg\" alt=\"characters-3\" width=\"716\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8018\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a young Hispanic interested in a career in acting, seeing a <strong>Hispanic actor<\/strong> on the screen could validate your professional interest.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a young Hispanic, seeing a <strong>Hispanic character<\/strong> on the screen could validate your very existence. <\/p>\n<p>Hispanics represent <strong>19 nations as well as dozens upon dozens of cultures<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The only way to harness this massive potential, in terms of both creativity and audiences, is to create characters that represent these cultures. <\/p>\n<p>Put differently: &#8220;cast more Hispanics&#8221; is asking employers to <a href=\"http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/latinos-hollywood-few-roles-frequent-stereotypes-new-study-finds-n523511\">stop discriminating<\/a> against Hispanic actors. It&#8217;s asking for an end to destructive, illegal behavior; i.e., stop doing this bad thing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Create more Hispanic characters&#8221; is asking media companies to exploit the wealth of Hispanic cultures. It&#8217;s asking for innovative, pro-growth behavior; i.e., start doing this good thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elsewhere, otherwise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedutilitarian.com\/2013\/12\/what-if-the-x-men-were-black\/\">What If the X-Men Were Black?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Image: Luke Cage, Jane Villanueva, Jessica Huang<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>update FEB 18, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Black Panther<\/em> becomes Disney&#8217;s highest grossing open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a young Hispanic interested in a career in acting, seeing a Hispanic actor on the screen could validate your professional interest. If you&#8217;re a young Hispanic, seeing a Hispanic character on the screen could validate your very existence. Hispanics represent 19 nations as well as dozens upon dozens of cultures. The only way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8254,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions\/8254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}