Of course it ' s complete nonsense , that ' s your reasoning . it ' s fictional , it doesn ' t matter is always used to do bigoted things in fiction , that will have an impact in reality . African kids are going to watch american actors pretend to be native african and it doesn ' t bother you . Americans can make the fuss they want about white washing and how it erase identities but the fact is that they just want to insert americans of color to represent all cultures around the world by pressing the focus on something as cosmetic as race and not actually identity . Ghost in the shell whitewashing ? I guess the answer was to hire an asian american actress ? an actress with chinese or vietnamese decent to play an iconic character of japanese culture ? Now I get it ! Social justice pretends to fight the power established but also here to promote hollywood and american millionaires , well only the progressive ones . That ' s utterly pathetic .