Stinky-Dinkins

Tons of Finnish people and some Scandinavians have Epicanthic folds and blonde/red hair and blue or green eyes, and they're white. Look at actors like Josh Hartnett or Renee Zellweger, for example. Anyway, that was kind of my original point.. that they don't really look like any race on Earth (at least not in my head). You won't find any Polynesians with red/blonde hair and green or blue eyes. This would make casting difficult if not impossible if one goes for accuracy-to-book, without absurd amounts of makeup/dye/prosthetics/colored contacts (which always look completely unnatural.) Even when white people with dark eyes wear colored contacts they're always oddly noticeable and distracting to me. Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger looks friggin' bizarre in those colored contacts he's wearing for that movie they've been advertising all over the place recently - it's like he has Gollum eyes. I don't care either way (I wouldn't oppose either a film or an animated feature, but I wouldn't be too terribly interested in watching it either), I just find it odd when people complain about potential "whitewashing" in regards to this adaptation. "Whitewashing" doesn't really apply here in my opinion, the races in these books are literally aliens from an Earthly perspective - and have no true equivalent in reality . If anything I always got the impression they were an imagined amalgamation of several different races as they would appear on Earth, rather than a character design based solely on a single "type" of Earthly human.

Polynesian? Don't a bunch of the Alethi characters have blonde or red hair and green/blue/grey eyes?