He actually said that he was from Gulmira? Okay, I feel stupid, because I completely 100% totally missed that. And I was actively listening for some sort of explanation as to where Yinsen was from or what he was doing there, and yet I still managed to miss that. Granted, there was a part during the first act of the movie when one of the idiots that I was sitting with had her cell phone go off, and all of us were very distracted trying to help her turn off the phone (didn't work) and then trying to help her crawl over us so that she could gracefully exit the theater with her bawling phone. So maybe that's why I missed it.
I absolutely didn't see any Southwest Asian/Mid-Eastern looks on him. All I saw was a guy who was significantly paler than Tony Stark, who was bald (hence I had no hair to judge by), and who had the exact same nose, eyes, and cheekbones that I'm used to seeing on people of white European descent. Now that I'm snooping around IMDB it turns out that the actor is of Persian descent, so I do feel kind of stupid that my brain defaulted him to white.
As for German, well, his accent sounded identical to the accents of some of the native German speakers that I know. Again, there's no good reason for any of these assumptions, my brain was just trying to fill in perceived gaps of information.
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I absolutely didn't see any Southwest Asian/Mid-Eastern looks on him. All I saw was a guy who was significantly paler than Tony Stark, who was bald (hence I had no hair to judge by), and who had the exact same nose, eyes, and cheekbones that I'm used to seeing on people of white European descent. Now that I'm snooping around IMDB it turns out that the actor is of Persian descent, so I do feel kind of stupid that my brain defaulted him to white.
As for German, well, his accent sounded identical to the accents of some of the native German speakers that I know. Again, there's no good reason for any of these assumptions, my brain was just trying to fill in perceived gaps of information.