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"Bryan Lee O&amp;#039;Malley has apologised that Scott Pilgrim was &amp;quot;so white&amp;quot;. The cartoonist has addressed the lack of ethnic diversity in his graphic novel series and its movie adaptation, acknowledging that the oversight was &amp;quot;appalling&amp;quot;.   &amp;quot;I am mixed (white and Korean) and grew up being told that race didn&amp;#039;t matter - that race was kinda over,&amp;quot; he wrote on Tumblr in response to a question from a fan. &amp;quot;As with many things you&amp;#039;re told as a kid, it took me many years to realise that it wasn&amp;#039;t really true... It was kinda wishful thinking on the part of my parents, who were in a mixed relationship. I mean, I wish it was true, we all wish it was true, but it&amp;#039;s not true. &amp;quot;I did grow up in an extremely white environment. In northern Ontario during the time I was growing up it was really just white people and Native/First Nations people.&amp;quot;  He continued: &amp;quot;So anyway, I guess what I&amp;#039;m saying is, what I knew in the first 20 years of my life was white people and a little bit of Asian people and so that&amp;#039;s what I put in Scott Pilgrim. I had an unexamined non-attitude towards race and I didn&amp;#039;t think about it until years later. &amp;quot;Honestly, when I saw the Scott Pilgrim movie it was kind of appalling to see just how white it was - to not even really see myself represented on the screen... At least in the comic they were just cartoons. &amp;quot;You can project yourself into a simple drawing of a person so easily - race seems to matter less (look at the global popularity of manga, where everyone is ostensibly Japanese).&amp;quot; O&amp;#039;Malley is currently working on Seconds, the follow-up to the bestselling Scott Pilgrim series. The Edgar Wright-directed Scott Pilgrim vs the World was released in 2010. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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