Return of color blindness

Extracted Attributes

• Core Principle

  Selection without regard to race, ethnicity, or gender

• Trend Category

  Societal and Cultural

• Year of Recognition

  2023

• Alternative Terminology

  Non-traditional casting, integrated casting, blind casting

Timeline

• The All-In Podcast hosts (Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sachs, and David Friedberg) identify the 'Return of color blindness' as a top positive trend of the year during their Bestie Awards recap. (Source: 47c5a1f9-3bf9-4d68-ae85-a92717b28f78)

  2023-12-22

Color-blind casting

Color-blind casting is the practice of casting roles without regard to the actor's ethnicity or race. Alternative terms and similar practices include non-traditional casting, integrated casting, or blind casting, which can involve casting without consideration of skin color, body shape, sex or gender. A representative of the Actors' Equity Association has disputed the use of "color blind casting", preferring "non-traditional casting". Non-traditional casting "is defined as the casting of ethnic minority actors in roles where race, ethnicity, or gender is not germane".

Web Search Results

• Color Blindness: What It Is, Types & Causes

  There aren’t treatments for inherited color vision deficiency. If you have acquired color blindness, there’s a chance your color vision will return after you treat its cause. But the damage in your cones may permanently affect your color vision. Advertisement [...] Color vision deficiency is usually something you’re born with (inherited color blindness). It happens because of a genetic change that you inherit from your biological parents. That’s where it gets its name. A genetic change can cause missing or malfunctioning cones that lead to color vision deficiency. Acquired color blindness happens when you develop it later in life. This happens when something damages your eyes and the cones in your retinas. Some possible causes include: Advertisement [...] Blue-yellow color blindness happens when your blue cones are missing or don’t work correctly. It’s rarer than red-green. Subtypes include: #### Blue cone monochromacy This is the rarest type of color vision deficiency. It happens when you’re missing both green- and red-sensing cones. Because your retinas only have blue cones, it will be hard to tell the difference between any colors. Everything might look like a shade of gray.

• Color Therapy | Harvard Medicine Magazine

  People who are color-blind, however, may one day have an opportunity to experience the full spectrum of color vision, according to Jason Comander ’06, an instructor in ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. Researchers at the University of Washington have developed gene therapy that restores the gene that codes for the missing or faulty light-sensitive pigment, allowing cone cells to detect colors that they could not detect previously. [...] What we see is less than meets the eye, especially for those who are color-blind. About ten percent of men are to some degree red-green color-blind. Roughly 1.5 percent of men cannot distinguish reds from greens because they lack either the red- or green-sensitive cone pigments, but for the most part, color blindness results when one of the three types of visual pigments doesn’t work normally. A more apt term for this condition might be color deficiency: men who are affected—the condition is [...] Color blindness can limit career choices. It can, for example, bar individuals from serving as police officers and from engaging in certain roles in the military. Because the condition is so physiologically benign for most affected people, few may be eager to try gene therapy. “There’s a cost-benefit to consider,” says Marmor.

• Treatment - Colour Blind Awareness

  There is hope on the horizon for a ‘cure’ for inherited colour vision deficiency using gene technology – for more information visit www.neitzvision.com. This will involve injecting genetic material into the eye so is not for the faint-hearted! At the moment there have been no trials on humans but the process has been proved to work in monkeys. For acquired colour vision deficiency, once the cause has been established and treated, it is possible that your vision may return to normal. [...] There is currently no effective treatment for inherited colour blindness. Some colour blind people have found some coloured filters and some lenses might help them to distinguish between some colour combinations in certain situations, whilst others report no effect or that they can cause further confusion. We do not endorse the use of coloured lenses or ‘colour blind’ glasses for use in the workplace, in schools/for education or in any situation which could impact upon safety e.g. driving and

• Color Blindness | National Eye Institute - NIH

  If you have color blindness (color vision deficiency), it means you see colors differently than most people. Most of the time, color vision deficiency makes it hard to tell the difference between certain colors. Usually, color vision deficiency runs in families. There’s no cure, but special glasses and contact lenses can help people see differences between colors. Most people who have color vision deficiency don’t have problems with everyday activities. [...] Everyone sees color a little differently — including people who don’t have color vision deficiency About 1 in 12 men have color vision deficiency Most people with color vision deficiency are born with it, but sometimes it doesn’t show up until later in life ## How can I find out if I have color deficiency? Your eye doctor can usually use a simple test to tell you if you have color vision deficiency. [...] There’s no cure for color vision deficiency that’s passed down in families (inherited), but most people adjust to it. Children with color vision deficiency may need help with some classroom activities, and adults with color vision deficiency may need accommodations to do jobs that rely on telling the difference between colors, like being a graphic designer.

• Color vision deficiency - American Optometric Association (AOA)

  People who are totally color deficient, a condition called achromatopsia, can only see things as black and white or in shades of gray. Color vision deficiency can range from mild to severe, depending on the cause. It affects both eyes if it is inherited and usually just one if it is caused by injury or illness. ## Causes & risk factors [...] Usually, color deficiency is an inherited condition caused by a common X-linked recessive gene, which is passed from a mother to her son. But disease or injury that damages the optic nerve or retina can also cause loss of color recognition. Some diseases that can cause color deficits are: Other causes for color vision deficiency include: [...] Another form of color deficiency is blue-yellow. This is a rarer and more severe form of color vision loss than just red-green deficiency because people with blue-yellow deficiency frequently have red-green blindness, too. In both cases, people with color-vision deficiency often see neutral or gray areas where color should appear.