#AIRBENDER SECOND MOVIE SERIES#

I imagine the people at Children Now were overjoyed with Nickelodeon’s Saturday morning cartoon series, “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” The popular series ran for three years and appealed to children-and adults-of all races even though the world was made up entirely of Asian and Inuit people. That could be me in five or six years.’ But you don’t see anything of yourself, and you’re just like, ‘Oh, well maybe I just have to go do this. As one Native American youth told us, ‘It makes you mad because you wish other people could get in there and not just whites, because they’re on everything.’”Īn Asian Pacific American youngster said that when you watch TV, “You want to think, ‘I could do that. And youth want to see the diversity of their lives reflected on the prime time screen.

This in turn affects the way viewers perceive themselves and interact with particular groups. When certain groups are privileged, others subjugated and still others altogether excluded, prime time sends skewed messages to viewers-especially young ones-that these groups are valued differently. “As America’s primary storyteller and chief cultural exporter, television provides messages and images that contribute to the worldviews of millions. In January 2001, Children Now, a non-partisan, national organization “for people who care about children and want to ensure that they are the top public policy priority,” issued a 36-page study titled “Fall Colors: Prime Time Diversity Report, 2001.” It outlined the preponderance of white males in television playing the heroes and people of color getting non-leadership roles mostly in service positions. From left: Aang played by Noah Ringer, Katara played by Nicola Peltz, Sokka played by Jackson Rathbone, and Zuko played by Dev Patel.

The mainly Asian lead characters of the cartoon series “Avatar: the Last Airbender” juxtaposed with the actors who will be playing them in Paramount’s upcoming big screen adaptation.

Airbender second movie