The country that heavily invested in science and technology, much more so than any other nation in history, is going to lead the world in those fields?!

…if people based their image of the character on either the manga or anime, they’d have an image of a white European woman.

That is what both the manga and anime describe the major’s main body as, and depicts it the same.

Complimenting people is gross, you’re supposed to just quietly shit on them while praising their accomplishments as long as they themselves are flaw free humans.

Just a reminder since people apparently still have this confusion; ghost in the shell wasn’t white washed. The character from book one is described as western looking specifically to be able to infiltrate any country without suspicion falling on Japan.

We can discuss why they didn’t white face a Japanese person if thats somehow less offensive than hiring for the look of the android body instead of the original body that died of cancer as a little girl, but that seems even more silly than people that had no interest in the series (or anime/manga in general) getting upset about accurate casting.

Have you ever read comic books?

In short, they’re trying to make much more money to pay the executives’ 7 figure salaries, and are giving up browser privacy to do so.