Chemda is fully correct in the "white is the default" explanation.
Lets look at the Hunger games example:
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In the novel The Hunger Games, Katniss describes Rue as “a twelve-year-old girl from District 11. She has dark brown skin and eyes, but other than that, she’s very like Prim in size and demeanor.”
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So this is not an example of changing a character from a book to a different race for a movie - its readers so hardcore defaulting to white that they ignore the actual description and take to twitter to write comments like
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“Awkward moment when Rue is some black girl and not the little blonde innocent girl you picture”
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