Diversity in movies should be achieved with new stories, not substituting actors.

Many people are triggered by "wokeness" but I applaud Hollywood for its efforts to be more diverse.

Sadly I disagree with the prevailing approach of taking the same old stories/settings and just substituting minorities or women into roles of white men. At best this is lazy, at worst it rewrites history or sacred mythologies, which can be condescending and dismissive in many ways.

Instead, why not new stories? These stories could be based in the past outside Europe and showcase other cultures and peoples as they were. Or they could be based in the future in which case it is truly realistic to see diverse people regardless of geographic locations. All this could continue with an appropriate rebalancing that would still allow "white/men" stories to continue to be told.