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Why no hispanics as astronauts?


There are 50 million hispanics in the US, there are more than blacks and their numbers are increasing yet there are very few in these movie productions.
There is always a token black in the cast but no hispanics. why?

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It is supposed to be an international space movie, so it really doesn't matter what the ethnic numbers are in the US as not all the members are American. I believe the black individual is supposed to be British, not American. I wouldn't know, but how many Hispanics are astronauts? Perhaps it could be an actual reflection of what the astronauts actually are in the real world instead of Hollywood being discriminatory.

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What's with all the racially-charged accusations being hurled at this film?
Why are there so many trolls on this board waging some kind of racial holy war?

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My question, and I barely restrained myself from asking the OP, WHY WOULD YOU WANT A TOKEN ANYTHING? In fact, sometimes I'm crying out about these supposedly socially diverse things for the exact fact that they ARE token, or caricatures which I think is actually worse, myself.


I keep my expectations low -- then I can be pleasantly surprised.

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We were here first.

Where are the Asian characters DC CW? #MoreAsians

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Hispanics were first, blacks only arrived when english brought them.

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You had Rick Martinez in the Martian, which was the better film by far.

Oderint Dum Metuant

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Hispanics were in America first? You mean Spaniards? Or are you referring to native Americans?

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Natives came from Asian after being kicked out of every decent country in the world. Then the scum from Europe came and kicked their asses. Then those scum were too lazy to work, so the chosen people bought some boats and filled it up with dominated tribes from Africa to sell. And now this is the failed experiment known as the Americas.

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Jose Jimenez was not available.

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Because the space station doesn't have air shocks on it

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Why not ppl who have sex with goats ?

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Are you not aware of Jose Jimenez?

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@Ecthelion2005 Hey c'mon, someone has to do the laundry.
*crickets*
I'll show myself out.

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