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SHANG CHI AND THE LEGEND OF TEN RINGS - MARVELS NEW CLUB IN BAG

R ecently Marvel announced that they were working on development of a Shang-Chi film staring Simu Liu along with other casts from Crazy Rich Asians. This notion met with great applause but also a large portion of criticism. Mostly from Chinese & other Asian communities via social media channel posting decrying the depiction of Shang Chi throughout the Marvel’s journey was racist.   Unfortunately, characters like Dr. Fu Manchu are still grossly poor interpretations of Asian people and one of the biggest problems Marvel had in the '70s was coloring them. Due to a limitation on colors offered by the printer, Marvel settled on coloring Fu Manchu in an off-yellow color while Shang-Chi was a bright bronze/gold color. This was considered offensive and unnecessary, but was the result of not wanting to color him the same as Caucasians. As printing technology developed, this problem went away, but Shang-Chi's golden history remains a complicated aspect of the character's pa

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