Critics unimpressed by Wuthering Heights film for casting wrong race

Wrong, the Yorkshire Moors have been filled with Nigerians and Somalians since Roman times chud

Yeah we call them BIPOCs these days

lol. Dark Skinned in 1847 meant Irish with a Scottish cousin. The world has come very far since then.

Ages since I read the book but I think Heathcliff is supposed to be Gypsy (sorry. Romani, since apparently "gypsy" is a slur) which is why he's dark-skinned and an orphan.

Looked it up online and here's the introduction to him by the narrator:

But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman: that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure; and rather morose.

A description of when the child was brought home:

We crowded round, and over Miss Cathy's head I had a peep at a dirty, ragged, black-haired child; big enough both to walk and talk: indeed, its face looked older than Catherine's; yet when it was set on its feet, it only stared round, and repeated over and over again some gibberish that nobody could understand. I was frightened, and Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors: she did fly up, asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house, when they had their own bairns to feed and fend for? What he meant to do with it, and whether he were mad? The master tried to explain the matter; but he was really half dead with fatigue, and all that I could make out, amongst her scolding, was a tale of his seeing it starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool, where he picked it up and inquired for its owner. Not a soul knew to whom it belonged, he said; and his money and time being both limited, he thought it better to take it home with him at once, than run into vain expenses there: because he was determined he would not leave it as he found it.

Neighbours think he's foreign:

Oho! I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool—a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.

So yeah, whoever plays Heathcliff in a modern adaptation should be Latinx at least.