Why does she have an Italian Last name in Battlestar Galactica?
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PCMechanic — 14 years ago(April 16, 2011 02:25 AM)
It's an hilarious thread though because she comes from a planet light-years away (no Korea) and she died 150,000 years ago on our earth (when there was no such country as Korea and the Korean language did not even exist yet).
So yeah, OP, it would make
total
sense for a space alien who came to earth 150,000 years ago to have a traditional Korean name.
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arvig — 13 years ago(August 08, 2012 09:30 AM)
I've only read the OP's post. I'll quote it here.
"Actress Grace Park is Korean.
So why didn't they give her a Korean sounding last name to reflect her ethnicity, just like Harry Kim on Star Trek.
They gave her an Italian Last name. "
Her character doesn't have an Italian last name. Italy won't exist for a good 200,000 or 300,000 years after the last episode of the show. The same with Korea.
The ACTRESS is Korean. The characters she plays are Cylons that in most cases masquerade as humans. Her last name is one from the culture of the humans in the TV show.
Thus all stereotypical naming conventions go out the window.
It's been too long since I watched the show, so I don't remember which of the 12 colonies she thought she was from before she found out she was a Cylon (Was it Caprica) but if you must assign her a race, her 'race' the thought she had would be Caprican if she was from Caprica. Every character on the show, despite if the actor was black, white, asian or any other race considered themselves to be of whatever colony they were born on. That comes closest to the character's "race".
Or to put it another way, Boomer before she found out she was a Number 81c84 series Cylon isn't Asian. She's someone who thought she was (If she was from Caprica) Caprican (or whatever the right term is) but is really a Cylon. Neither "race" is Asian.
If you can't comprehend that, then just pretend she was adopted by Italians.