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From: Josef Albers's "Interraction of Color" (differing backgrounds make the Xs look different)

“[…] they could talk forever about colors and never disagree. Yet inside their heads, it could all be very different.”
— Nell Greenfieldboyce, npr
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“The question I have been considering since this debate is whether 'authenticity' of theatre casting actually risks narrowing opportunities for minority group actors and restricts their opportunities to play a cross-section of roles?
     For example, if we were to take demands for authenticity at an entirely literal level are we then saying: that a Jew must always play Shylock, a Russian in a Chekhov play, and an American in a Mamet play?
     To this end, could some of the same actors in the audience for this debate from all ethnicities and vocally advocating authenticity of casting even be ones to then object if imported actors of authentic origin were to undertake such specific roles, denying them work and even prevent them from displaying their own talent performing in a diverse variety of parts?”
— Richard Jordan, The Stage
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“We do not in any way blame or begrudge the actors currently cast for their involvement [ in musical  ‘The Nightingale,’ based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale and set in China] — this is not about them. We simply find it baffling and frustrating that unlike ‘The Lion King’ or ‘Bombay Dreams,’ musicals where the majorities of their multicultural casts have been comprised primarily of African and Indian American actors, respectively, the creative team would not consider it an artistic or social priority to find and cast Asian Americans in the majority of roles for a story set in Asia.
     That Moises Kaufman was a part of this decision — an artist who has long been concerned with giving voice to an oppressed minority and speaking their truth — is even more disappointing … Was there a perception on the part of the creative team that the Asian American talent pool was inadequate? Was it based on fear that there wasn’t enough of a box-office draw with an all-Asian cast? Was there not even that much thought given to telling the story with an Asian American cast in the first place? […]”
— The Asian American Performers Action Coalition, via The Rafu Shimpo
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