A person assumes a fake ethnic identity in order to advance their career. If you guessed this person to be Elizabeth Warren who passed herself off as an Indian in order to be hired as a minority on the Harvard faculty you would be right. However, you would also be
A person assumes a fake ethnic identity in order to advance their career. If you guessed this person to be Elizabeth Warren passing herself off as an Indian to be hired as a minority on the Harvard faculty, you would be right. However, you would also be right if you guessed the person to be the new Marvel comics editor-in-chief, C. B. Cebulski, who years ago pretended to be Japanese in order to advance his career every bit as much as Warren did.
This latest bit of career motivated ethnic pretense was reported on Tuesday by the Huffington Post in Marvel’s New Editor-In-Chief Is A White Guy Who Pretended To Be An Asian Writer:
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Marvel’s new editor-in-chief, C. B. Cebulski, admitted Tuesday to once writing comics under a Japanese pseudonym.
Cebulski, who is white, said he wrote under the pen name Akira Yoshida back in the early 2000s, Bleeding Cool first reported. The outlet suggested he might’ve used the name to get around a Marvel policy at the time that barred staffers from writing comic books.
Here’s more:
His admission appears to have been prompted by a wave of discussion following a tweet from Image Comics brand manager Dave Brothers.
