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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP are you simiarly outraged by Lin Manuel Miranda being cast as Jack in Mary Poppins Returns?

I mean he is clearly not Anglo or British. He is a New Yorker for goodness sakes!

And what about all those white Brits being cast as Americans? [/quote]

What about the creative-license casting in "Hamilton" in general, for which it has been applauded ad nauseam?[/quote]

1) Hamilton's race flipped casting is an integral part of the artistic vision;

2) England's colonial history means that there were MANY British PoC even in Mary Poppins times. [/quote]

You have *entirely* missed the point.  No one's saying there weren't any PoC during this time.  However - the main characters of "Hamilton" were ALL white people, and now they are being played by PoC.  That you can call that "artistic vision," while at the same time express utter outrage that Indian actors are playing characters (supposedly) from the Middle East is astounding and incredibly hypocritical.[/quote]
Hamilton was written specifically to draw comparisons between the struggles of immigrants and minorities to assert themselves and create their American identities with the founding of our country. That's the entire pint. [/quote]

NP here. It may have been written for that reason, not it doesn't change the fact that LMM took a bunch of characters based on real people (which, as far as I know, Aladdin is not) of one race and intentionally cast them as people of other races. And people thought this was awesome, not racist. [/quote]

Agree with this. Why should the race of the actors matter? 
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