VIDEO : Film 'Ghost in the Shell's' Scarlett Johansson responds to whitewashing critiques

Whitewashing is a term that seems to be plaguing some of Hollywood's blockbusters a lot more often than some would care to admit. Whitewashing is a casting practice for film in which white actors are cast in historically non-white character roles. Now, the film Ghost in the Shell is facing those very criticisms for casting Scarlett Johansson in the leading role of Major Motoko Kusanagi. The original character had always been portrayed as Asian.