I find people in the States can be very reluctant to acknowledge that just because you do things different, doesn't mean you're doing it wrong, do you have that experience too? (Also, because you're a Brit, obligatory Peride Albion comment. Carry on.)
Yeah, I do. I was very pleasantly surprised to watch Switch (2010) and see that the characters and extras weren't all white all the time, unlike the (admittedly very short) bit of Agents of SHIELD that took place in Paris too. There's been non-white people in France for centuries (the Dumas are a famous example), even longer. Even discounting that, there are cultural differences between Bretagne and Provence and Alsace-Lorraine (they get special laws, even) and Savoie and Languedoc (ask me about the Albigensian Crusade sometime) that can go do to the very language people speak, even when they're speaking French and not Breton/Provençal/Elsässisch/savoyard/langedoccien/occitan/catalan/basque/etc. Whoops, TL;DR, sorry.
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I find people in the States can be very reluctant to acknowledge that just because you do things different, doesn't mean you're doing it wrong, do you have that experience too? (Also, because you're a Brit, obligatory Peride Albion comment. Carry on.)
Yeah, I do. I was very pleasantly surprised to watch Switch (2010) and see that the characters and extras weren't all white all the time, unlike the (admittedly very short) bit of Agents of SHIELD that took place in Paris too. There's been non-white people in France for centuries (the Dumas are a famous example), even longer. Even discounting that, there are cultural differences between Bretagne and Provence and Alsace-Lorraine (they get special laws, even) and Savoie and Languedoc (ask me about the Albigensian Crusade sometime) that can go do to the very language people speak, even when they're speaking French and not Breton/Provençal/Elsässisch/savoyard/langedoccien/occitan/catalan/basque/etc. Whoops, TL;DR, sorry.