Real Life

Friday March 10, 2006 - 4:20AM EDT

So there is this video of The Simpsons intro using real actors. It was a promo for british TV station. I saw the video on the internet. Its weird though because  although The Simpson family is supposed to represent a white family seeing them as a real white family just doesn't work for me. The Simpsons don't have a race, no cartoon character does. They have coloring but I can never picture cartoons accurately as real people it just doesn't work for me. Cartoons are an entity unto themselves. Like all the Japanese animation cartoons that I have watched. Even though many characters' skin represents different races I never am able to associated cartoon characters with race. They are a classification on their own. I can imagine them as being real people but never with that characteristic of race that we like to use on humans.