The Asian kid in Up

This kid in the picture to the left is Russell in the new Pixar film Up. At first glance I thought this was no big deal, just another animated character in a Disney movie. But then I realized that his eyes were slightly chinky and I wondered could this be an ASIAN...

So I looked up the movie on Wikipedia and turns out my suspicions were correct. He was asian and as Wikipedia put it "Asian Americans have positively noted Pixar's first casting of an Asian lead character." Damn right, I "positively noted." Not only was this the first time Disney decided to make a movie with an asian kid but this was the first movie I had seen without the use of an Asian doing karate, being a nerd, or some other stereotypical role. Instead of playing tennis Russell is a boy scout and is chunky unlike most skinny asians, and for that I applaud him. I'll finally be seeing the movie this weekend along with the many other happy asians.

We gotta represent.