History RaceLift / MinorityToOtherMinority

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* The Netflix documentary series ''African Queens'' cast Adele James, a Black British actress, as UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII, who historical records state was of Macedonian descent; meaning she was light-skinned, with distant Sogdian ancestry (an ancient East Iranian civilisation). Director Tina Gharavi cited a theory that Cleopatra could have been mixed race to defend her choice, though said theory has been disputed and remains unsubstantiated.[[note]]According to a theory by archeologist Hilke Thür, her half-sister Arsinoe IV (whose death Cleopatra ordered) may have had African heritage (they shared a father, but not a mother). Said theory has not been accepted by academic consensus since it has not been proven that the grave she attributed to Arsinoe and based her research upon is hers (the skeleton is that of a person who was too young to be Arsinoe, among other things).[[/note]]

* The original ''{{Literature/Aladdin}}'' takes place in China, though [[WeAllLiveInAmerica everyone is a Muslim (except for one Jew), everyone has an Arabic name, and the government is Islamic in structure]]. So it's not surprising that [[{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} the Disney version]] as well as every other adaptation in existence sets the story in the Middle East. Islam did reach China, along with other parts of South and East Asia, so that is not absurd.

* In ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanInfiniteFrontier Young Diana]]'' Oenoe, a minor Amazon from the Creator/GeorgePerez [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 post-Crisis 80s run]],, is changed from a red-haired black woman to an Asian woman.

* ''{{Series/Guerrilla}}'': Critics have accused the series of [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this by making Jas South Asian and not black. Actual members of the British Black Panthers have defended the show, however, saying the Black Panthers were also often South Asian (women included) and "black" then was used as an umbrella term for both.

* In ''Manga/DragonBall: The Path to Power'', some of the characters have went through race lift. [[TheAhnold Major Metallitron]] who was a white cyborg is now black and Staff Officer Black who was black now appears to be Native American.

** Ben Kingsley portrays the Mandarin in ''Film/IronMan3''. The Mandarin, as his name implies, is a half-white, half-Chinese YellowPeril villain, while Kingsley is half-white and half-Indian. Rumor has it the character's race was changed to make him less offensive to Asian audiences, especially in light of the Chinese government contributing a sizable amount to the costs of producing the film. Anyways, it turns out that [[spoiler:Kingsley's Mandarin is merely a British actor ''pretending'' to be the Mandarin, with the white Aldrich Killian claiming to be the ''real'' Mandarin near the end. To add a further twist, ''Film/AllHailTheKing'' reveals that Killian was ''also'' an imposter; the real Mandarin appears in ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', played by Chinese actor Creator/TonyLeung]].

* In the ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' film, Hal's sidekick Tom Kalmaku, who is Inuit in the comic, is played by a Maori actor.

** In the original ''Comicbook/TheEternals'' comics, Kingo Sunen, though technically not human, resembled an Asian man and had a career as a famous actor who starred in Japanese samurai movies. In the ''Film/{{Eternals}}'' movie, Kingo instead resembles a brown-skinned Desi man (played by Creator/KumailNanjiani), with the films he stars in now being Usefulnotes/{{Bollywood}} musicals made in India.

** In the original ''Comicbook/TheEternals'' comics, Kingon Sunen, though technically not human, resembled an Asian man and had a career as a popular actor in Japan. In the ''Film/{{Eternals}}'' movie, Kingo instead resembles a brown-skinned Desi man (played by Creator/KumailNanjiani), with his genre of choice changed to Usefulnotes/{{Bollywood}} movies made in India.

* In ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanInfiniteFrontier Young Diana'' Oenoe, a minor Amazon from the Creator/GeorgePerez [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 post-Crisis 80s run]],, is changed from a red-haired black woman to an Asian woman.