All American

Green Lantern

Another American Hero

 The other day i was on one of my favourite sites to go on to see about new movies coming out (JoBlo) in the near future. I was just looking at mainly comic book movies and then i realized something ,why are all comic book hero's almost all white American males. As children we grew up worshipping these hero's but they were all one race and from one country. Now I'm not a racist or anything but i kind of hit me in a weird sense because now that i think of it when i do see a comic hero who is colored i think that its not right. Its because Ive been so used to it. My background is Persian and the closest hero we probably had to relate to was prince of Persia (which i didn't even know about till i was like 12) or Aladdin and hes not even a action hero really. It made me think we really got so attached to our hero's being the same that any other race dose not seem right to be a hero. Recently they are trying to add in more colored characters to the comic book world. A good example is green lantern if you watch the newly made cartoons he is now African American. Even Nick Fury will be African American (Samuel.L.Jackson) in the new Avengers movie coming out soon.  But this was back when i was growing up luckily allot has changed in cartoons and hero's if you watch new children's TV shows its full of multicultural hero's from different countries around the world. Its better to see this kind of things happening it creates less racism in the world. I have heard the argument many times of comic hero's and how they should be white and i personally don't think that it should be true. These new shows and comics will make for a better world to even live in. Which in the end is what real hero's are there to do!