Caucasians as Asians
Disguising ones self as an Asian can be done quickly and easily with as little as remembering to squint in order to fake the appearance of having slanted eyes also known as an Epicanthic Fold if you already have black hair and a skin tan. Whites with pale skin and a different hair color can disguise themselves with a make up and by changing their hair color either with a wig or hair dye.
In the 1970s David Carradine beat out Bruce Lee to star in the television series Kung Fu where he played a half white and half Chinese Shaolin monk named Kwai Chang Caine. Kung Fu was best known for its display of martial arts as Caine kicked ass through the American Old West for three seasons.
The best actor in the history of American westerns and also well known for playing countless war hero's in WWII movies John Wayne became Mongolian in Howard Hughes's 1956 film "The Conqueror". Who knew that Genghis Khan looked just like John Wayne with a Mongol mustache, huge eyebrows, and a little makeup.
In "You Only Live Twice" Agent 007 James Bond fakes his own death and disguises himself as Japanese to fool his pursuers and move around Japan unnoticed while investigating the real cause of what the United States believed to be the destruction of one of their space ships by the Soviet Union. Bond eventually exposes SPECTRE as the real organization behind the destruction of an American spaceship and prevents world war 3.
Caucasian Hispanics
Like orientals it is not hart to whites to disguise themselves as Hispanic for the same reasons. Hispanics are typically only slightly darker than whites with dark brown or black hair. What makes a Hispanic disguise easier is that you don't have to mimic slanted eyes, but this can be offset by the recommendation that you mimic the curly hair that is common among Hispanics.
In 1958 Charlton Heston best known for his legendary role as Moses in "The Ten Commandments" played a Mexican narcotics officer in "The Touch of Evil" on vacation with his wife in American until he catches local police planting evidence to frame a fellow Mexican. What follows is a story of international police corruption that explores issues of cross border jurisdiction as well as evil.
Sir Anthony Hopkins played the first of a multi-generational duo of Zorro's in the 1998 film "The Mask of Zorro". With a tan and a mustache Hopkins pulls off the role of the original masked hero Don Diego de la Vega who is imprisoned by his nemesis Don Rafael Montero as he flees California for Spain in the closing days of the Mexican Revolution. Montero takes his daughter Elena (Catherine Zeta Jones) back to Spain and does not return until Zorro is old and frail. As a result old Zorro must train a new Zorro (Antonio Banderas) to stop Montero.
Jack Black plays Mexican cook at a monastery who becomes a Mexican wrestler in "Nacho Libre" who dawns a tight stretchy blue spandex suit, mask, and a red cape before embarking on long string of losing wrestling matches. He reason for becoming a wrestler was a combination of wanting to achieve respect from kids at the monasteries orphanage, buy better food for those kids, and hopefully catch the eye of a woman he has a crush on.
Caucasian Native Americans
Native Americans like Hispanics are easy for whites to imitate since they look basically the same. What makes acting native easy is that Native Americans rarely have the curly hair that is common among Hispanics.
In 1990 Kevin Costner starred in "Dances with Wolves" as U.S. Army Lieutenant Dunbar who is assigned to a remote outpost in the Mid West on the frontier in what at that time was primarily Indian country. When arriving at his new post he finds it abandoned and in disrepair. Dunbar repairs the fort, but after months of his only friend being a tame wolf he eventually makes contact with local natives. Eventually Dunbar becomes a good friend of theirs before he joins the tribe and gets married. By the time the U.S. Cavalry returns to the fort he is full blown native. So much so that he gets shot at by soldiers who cannot tell that underneath his native garb is an American officer.
In 1970 Dustin Hoffman was best known for his breakthrough role in "The Graduate", but in "Little Big Man" he broke the color barrier as a Native American who at the age of 100 tells a collector of oral histories about his life. His story includes the tragedy of seeing his wife killed by General George Armstrong Custer in events leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn also known as "Custer's Last Stand".
In 1992 Daniel Day Lewis played Hawkeye, a hunter and one of the last remaining members of a nearly extinct tribe called the Mohicans, hence the title "The Last of the Mohicans". Set in the middle of the French and Indian War Hawkeye falls in love with Cora (Madeleine Stowe) the daughter of a British Colonel who he struggles to keep alive throughout several battles made worse by the fact that Magua (Wes Studi) wants her dead as payback for what her father did to his family.
Caucasian Arabians
Disguising yourself as an Arab is basically the same thing as disguising yourself as Hispanic. The only difference is that Arabs typically have dark bags under their eyes that you may need eye shadow to replicate.
In 1962 Anthony Quinn starred in the Academy Award Winning film "Lawrence of Arabia" as Arab leader Auda Abu Tayi. Tayi was an important ally of British Colonel T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during WWI.
Elizabeth Taylor played the infamous queen of Egypt Cleopatra in this 1963 film about her affair with Mark Antony that surrounds stories of war, murder, and the Roman Empire.
In the war on terror "Team America World Police" needed the greatest of actors for the greatest of jobs and that actor was Gary Johnson. Johnson utilizes his skills as a top notch actor to infiltrate a group of terrorists from Durkadurkastan to stop an impending terrorist attack on America.
Caucasian Africans
The white to black disguise is the ultimate in ethnic transformation rarely achieved by most desperate of wannabe's. It demands a huge quantity of makeup plus hair dye and or a wig. Celebrities like Vanilla Ice and Eminem have tried to be African for years, but never came close.
Fred Armisen was an excellent choice for the role of the first black President of the United States Barack Obama. He imitates his voice and body mannerisms perfectly in addition to looking as much like him as possible for a Saturday Night Live character.
Pampered white kid Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell) wanted to go to college and wanted a full ride scholarship to Harvard. The problem was that the only foundation he could find that was offering scholarships did it for minorities only, so he decided to pretend to be black to get the scholarship.
Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) is part of a group of actors filming a movie about the Vietnam War when all of a sudden a real war breaks out and they are forced to do some real fighting. Downey is convincing as an African American soldier who from curly hair to skin tone and voice so much so that if you did not already know he was white you would not be able to tell the difference.
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