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Racism and sexism may officially be behind the hate towards the more recent Star Wars franchise and diverse actors like Kelly Marie Tran, according to a new study published in Psychology of Popular Media.
Researchers surveyed 1,925 self-identified Star Wars fans, most of whom were male and around 24 years old, and asked them to rate six characters on a scale from extremely negative to extremely positive. Three of the characters were from older Star Wars movies and three were from newer movies, including Finn, played by John Boyega, who is Black, and Rose Tico, played by Kelly Marie Tran, who is a woman of Vietnamese descent.
Hostile sexism and symbolic racism were associated with greater dislike of the newer characters, but Star Wars fandom in general was found to be largely opposed to sexism or racism.
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