Data is Data. He is neither South American, nor French. But if he were either, why not both? He could be from French Guiana! But he's from Omicron Theta.
Data - South American or French?
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I suspect that it’s the hopefully-outmoded convention whereby, say, people refer to David Carradine’s character on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as “looking Oriental”, which happened more than once, despite his very plainly being a white guy who talks funny.
The only Spanish I can recall Data speaking was "mariposa" (as in, a starship named Mariposa); the only Portuguese was "Martim Vaz" (as part of "New Martin Vaz").
Carradine - in the original Kung Fu series - could pass as half Chinese (i.e., his character's ethnic makeup).
Carradine - in the original Kung Fu series - could pass as half Chinese (i.e., his character's ethnic makeup).
He could not
I would say that while he couldn’t quite, at least you could see they were kinda sorta trying, a little. Whereas in The Legend Continues, they didn’t bother to.
EDIT: I was pretty shocked by a later incidence of this pheomenon: Brian Dennehy played Kublai Khan in a Marco Polo TV movie in 2007 — not even with any makeup, as far as I could tell. You’d have thought the 90s were the last gasp.
That's racist
Not funny.
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