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White / Mexican nonsense in Trivia section


You can read there such absurdities like:
"Changing Heston's character from a white district attorney to a Mexican narcotics agent"
or
"Heston's character was originally supposed to be white; it was Welles himself who changed it to a Mexican".

Mexican is just a nationality and not a race. Only an ignorant is unaware of the fact that a Mexican can be White(from Spanish - European - ancestors), indigenous (descendant of the natives who lived there when the Spaniards arrived) or mestizo (mixed).

So an accurate trivia should point out that Heston's character was originally supposed to be American and it was changed to Mexican.

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I agree. Same can be said of being "African" or "Asian". If race-baiters would shut up, there would be much less racism.

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I dont think many people would refer to Spaniards as white.

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Which only confirms how ignorant people is about the topic.

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I dont think many people would refer to Spaniards as white.


Anyone with half a brain would.

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Well, I would imagine people with just half a brain would have more pressing issues to worry about.

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