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Okay, also?
They didn't even get Jackson Rathbone that tan that was apparently all he needed to be able to play a PoC.
Kid is white. No wonder Sokka and Katara were some of the last survivors of their tribe; the Fire Nation probably couldn't see them against the snow.
I mean, geez, come on, Paramount, if you're going to do yellow/brownface, at least try. Where are the tanning beds and the magical makeup?
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Current Mood: totally serious
05 October 2009 @ 12:47 pm
To Protect Galápagos, Ecuador Limits a Two-Legged Species
The growth has become enough of a threat to the environment that even the government, which still welcomes growth in the tourism industry, has expelled more than 1,000 poor Ecuadoreans in the past year from a province that they feel is rightfully theirs, and it is in the process of expelling many more.
By limiting the population, officials hope to preserve the natural wonders that bolster one of Ecuador’s most profitable sectors: tourism.
By expelling people from the islands, the government hopes to preserve the ecological wonders of the Galápagos for...more people.
The irony being that most of the poor migrants are there precisely because the tourism industry is so profitable.
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/brb, can't cope with the ASTOUNDING ENTITLEMENT displayed in some of the comments
I've been seeing this banner ad everywhere, and it's bugging the crap out of me: