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I found this gem among the dozens of White TLK humanizations. It’s one of the few that showcases most characters from the movies.
Why is Rafiki White? Actually, why are any of them White? And the ones that are brown all have straight hair..
SoLDN: EVEN WHEN SOMETHING IS SET SOME WHERE EVERYONE IS BLACK, THE DEFAULT IS STILL WHITE
And notice how Scar is the darkest person here…whoever drew this ain’t slick, making the villain dark-skinned while everyone else is light as fuck.
The films were like that all of the outlanders were darkskinned. Even the hyenas darker than the lions and voiced by POC
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Got linked to this video by MovieBytes that briefly addresses whitewashing in Hollywood. It provides a pretty good overview of a number of films that have had whitewashing in them recently including Argo, Extraordinary Measures, Batman, 21, and Prince of Persia.
There are some parts of the video that were kind of nail biting, like referring to race as a “touchy” issue (uh huh) and arguing that “black men have surpassed white women in representation in films” (ehhh that’s intersectionality and male privilege coming into play.) Also, both examples of Hispanic actors, Benecio DelToro and Javier Bardem, are from Spain. (Sadly, the most popular Hispanic actors in US are often not Latin@s from the United States; I would argue that Europeans from Spain have very different experiences from say, Chicanos in California.)
But I do think the narrator does a good job calling out one very common derailing tactic:
The derailment tactic that often comes into play is that certain ethnicities are basically “Caucasian” or “white” (particularly Indo-European, Middle Eastern, and Latino cultures) so it doesn’t matter if a white actor is cast to play the role of the Prince of Persia or Bane, etc. Hence all of the “but Bane found out when he was 30 that his dad may or may not have been Thomas Wayne and then later found out that his dad was actually British so why are you offended by this non-whitewashing!1!111!” without taking into account that plenty of people of color around the world (due to a number of factors, including Imperialism and colonialism, historically) are part white but still people of color. And MovieBytes points out, that if these ethnicities are basically “white and “if it doesn’t matter, why not cast Latino and Persian actors?”
The other half of the equation, of course, is that if these ethnicities are really and truly racialized as white, then why aren’t PoC Latino and Persian actors regularly depicting white characters in movies? Playing leading roles on the same level as Tom Hardy, Ben Affleck, and Jake Gyllenhaal? Because the differential racialization used by Hollywood and mainstream society is different from any textbook definition based off of the Caucasus mountains.
And telling someone disappointed about not being represented that Bane’s dad was British doesn’t make the fact that there are barely any PoC in the Nolan Batverse—when there could have been some—any less marginalizing or okay.
Source: racebending
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Bleach - Yoruichi by nayuki-chan.
Here’s a screencap of the same character:
Someone left a comment inquiring about the skin color and the artist replied with “I used photoshop to colour~ haha I took my own liberty to make her skin a bit lighter. I think it reads better as a chibi like that~~”
CC: This person think it “reads better” when they whitewash Yoruichi’s skin?
what kind of watery excuse is that
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“Hi there! I’m Roxanne Weasley!”
“Woah dere, girl. Hold up. You’re not Roxanne Weasley…”
“I’m not? Well, why?”
“Because Roxanne’s mother is black and her dad is white. You’re white and Filipino. So you can’t be Roxanne. That would be really inappropriate! It’d be completely erasing Roxanne’s black heritage. That’s really racist, homie…”
“Wow. You’re right. That is racist. But people use me as Roxanne all the time…”
“Well, yeah. I don’t get it. They easily accept Roxanne’s white heritage. Why not her black heritage? And people continuously tell them how racist it is. It’s so easy to use a more appropriate face for the job…”
“They must be racist idiots or something.”
“Wow. That’s terrible…”
“You’re damn right it is! Now that you understand, go help spread the word! Spread it like butter!”
“I will! I will! Who are you guys again?”
”Oh, us? We’re just various actresses who look more like Roxanne, but are rarely used for her face claim.”
CC: CAN I JUST EXPRESS MY SINCERE IRREDEEMABLE ANNOYANCE WITH EVERYONE WHO USES SHAY MITCHELL AS A FACECLAIM FOR POC CHARACTERS
SERIOUSLY
I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF SEEING HER EVERYWHERE
SHE’S THE TOKEN POC FACECLAIM FOR EVERY BULLSHIT RP BLOG
THEY USE HER BECAUSE SHE’S RACIALLY/ETHNICALLY AMBIGUOUS BUT JUST THE KIND OF POC THAT FITS INTO THE WHITE STANDARDS OF BEAUTY
IT IS DISRESPECTFUL TO CONTINUOUSLY USE THIS GIRL FOR FACECLAIMS SHE IS NOT CLEARLY SUITED FOR
#PADMAPATIL
#PARVATIPATIL
#ROXANNEWEASLEY
#ANGELINAJOHNSON
#RUE
DON’T THINK I DON’T NOTICE THE SHADISM GOING ON AS WELL
HOW YALL DELIBERATELY READ A BOOK THAT DESCRIBES A CHARACTER AS HAVING “DARK SKIN”
AND YET YOU USE SHAY MITCHELL BECAUSE SHE’S A POC AND SO WE SHOULDN’T CARE RIGHT?
WRONG BITCHES, FUCKING WRONG.
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WHITEWASHING TO THE MAX
Tough As Ovaries: fulvacitrum: Tough As Ovaries: (My) perfect cast for an avatar movie;…
Tough As Ovaries: (My) perfect cast for an avatar movie; the girls
Katara(i couldnt find anything better than these paintings)
Toph
Suki
Azula
Mai
Ty-lee
Korra
Asami
….Seriously?
kind of hard to just name them, but i do imagien toph is white.
idk, i just kinda always saw her as white, dispite the fact that she has dark hair and pale skin.
i mean my mom has black hair and pale skin and shes white, thats probably why.
but i didnt CREATE the characters, so its not my place to say WHO is white or whatever… hints the “(My)”
…Toph has asian features along with the black hair. Also, her last name is BEI-FONG. Please tell me how she could possibly be that fucking aryan. And have you seen her parents?
…Bitch, that shit is not white.
I’d buy your argument about “well my mama has similar coloring and she’s white” If your mama also had asian eyes, an asian last name, and really fucking asian parents.
You saw Toph as white because white is the default in your mind because oh, lordie, what an epiphany, WESTERN CULTURE IS WHITE WASHED.
Yeah…it’s not your place to “create” anything about characters. But if you mis-characterize a POC character as white “because you saw them that way” you are really fucking racist.
It’s not your place to mis-identify a character in a TV show that is clearly NOT WHITE ORIENTED.
And you may say “it’s not my place” but YA DID IT ANYWAYS.
White people are so used to seeing themselves everywhere and being the centre of everything that when they aren’t it really fucks with their mind
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I will give you two or three non-white actors in smaller supporting roles. Why not lead roles? Because I’m trying to make a living here. I have spent a lot of time and money throughout history convincing everyone that white is normal. I have even convinced non-white people that white is better, prettier, smarter, stronger, and that only white people can truly be the heroes. Everyone has bought into it, and now you want me to just abandon all my hard work?
-Aasif Mandvi parodies the mentality of studio executives who whitewash, in a satire article for Salon.com (via racebending)
THIS
Source: salon.com
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Race in Fantasy: A Primer
cross-posted from my blog, Scribbles & Sonnets
I’m writing a fantasy series. To be specific, I’m writing a multi-ethnic, supernatural, steampunk high fantasy series. If you’re not sure what I mean, I’ll give you some reference points. Think the television show “Heroes” meets “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” meets “A People’s History of the United States” and throw in some colonialism, imperialism, racism, and other -isms. I’ve always loved the fantasy genre every since I was a kid and here are some things I’ve noticed about the genre (books, film, television and video games) in regards to race:1. Dark / Brown people are bad.
Dark people are almost always the villains in high fantasy series. I say dark because notions of race are different in imaginary worlds but that doesn’t mean that racism in our world doesn’t carry over through the author’s depiction of dark people. J. R. R. Tolkien specifically stated in The Lord of the Rings trilogy that all of the men who joined Sauron were dark-skinned, and that the pirates were supposed to look “yellow” or Asian. Sound racist? That’s because it is.
In David Eddings’ Belgariad and Mallorean series, the story is told from the perspective of the Alorns (also known as white people) who fight a war with the Angaraks, a race of people with “yellow skin” and “slanted eyes.” They’re often referred to as “yellow dogs.”
In Terry Brooks’ Shannara series, which spans hundreds of years and generations upon generations of humans, dwarves, elves, trolls, etc. the dark elves are the ones who are evil. Read: dark-skinned elves.
Game of Thrones, the new HBO series based on George R. R. Martin’s series A Song of Fire and Ice has to this point (one season and four episodes of the second season in) only included three kinds of brown people: the first is a tribe of horse-lords call the Dothraki who the white protagonists view as savage, backward, and ignorant. Then there’s a cursory appearance of a black pirate, who is in the scene for approximately five minutes. In the last episode, there was a black person who is in charge of a city called Qarth (supposed to be modeled off of Egypt) and he has approximately two lines.
or…
2. Dark / Brown people don’t exist
There are plenty of other authors that wash their hands of race entirely, with token brown characters here and there or no brown people altogether. Harry Potter comes to mind, with only two or three named characters of color in seven books. A fantasy phenomenon, easily the most popular series of all time, and there are no people of color who figure prominently in it? Something about that just seems wrong.
Roger Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles has absolutely no people of color in it at all - and this series centers around the ability of the main characters to alter reality as they see fit. So you’re telling me that a group of people who can alter the very fabric of space and are all white?
Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn Chronicles are completely devoid of any brown people. Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games only makes mention of two who are named, and they both serve as tools to help the protagonist. They don’t have inner lives or desires or anything remotely like character development because they only exist to further the plot.
3. Brown people exist to be exotified and ogled by the white protagonist.
Jaqueline Carey’s Kushiel series is guilty of this particular trend: she sets up a pseudo-Renaissance world where the protagonist is a facsimile of a white European (seems French to me) and along her travels and journey she meets strange looking yellow-skinned and brown-skinned people. She marvels at how barbaric and savage their customs are. She feels pity for them when something bad happens and feels maternalistic towards them because they aren’t civilized enough to understand what’s going on around them.
Twilight is another series very guilty of this: Jacob is Native American and a werewolf and it’s not a coincidence. All of werewolves in Twilight are Native American, further reinforcing the stereotype that Native Americans are savage, wild, and uncivilized.
and the very rare…
4. Some people are brown and that’s okay because race doesn’t exist!
My beloved Star Trek is guilty of this one, as is Star Wars, The Matrix, and many other science fiction films. Just because we’re in the future doesn’t mean we’re post-racial. As much as I love The Next Generation, there is not a single mention of race in regards to Geordi LeForge (Levar Burton) or Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg). Since Worf (Michael Dorn) is a Klingon, I guess I could see how race wouldn’t be the same for Klingons, and I can even see the argument that because there are races other than human racism within the human species no longer exists… but that’s pretty farfetched to me.
Heroes does this as well, and not only does it refuse to acknowledge race, but it kills off the majority of its characters of color in the first season and then replaces them with blonde white women!
I would put The Hunger Games in this category as well because of the way race is never discussed other than as a descriptor of appearance. Collins had the opportunity to comment on systems of oppression and offer some insight on race as a hierarchical structure but she shied away from it.
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My four year old little brother was looking at my computer over my shoulder
I was on the Korra tag
Whitewashed Korra fan art was on that tag
He said that white Korra was prettier
I want to break something
SoLDN: WHITEWASHING ISN’T A BIG DEAL. CHILDREN DON’T NOTICE IT
HMMPF!
Mary: This is depressing but not surprising at all…
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Deadline reports that Julie Kagawa’s book, The Immortal Rules, has already managed to sell screen rights. The book was published by Harlequin Teen this week. The story is set in the future United States and is about a girl named Allie Sekemoto who is turned into a vampire.The review at Kirkus notes the disconnect between the book cover and excerpts from the book where other characters explicitly describe Allie as Asian.
Given the katana-wielding heroine has already been whitewashed on the book cover, this doesn’t bode very well for the movie.
Fucking whitewashed book covers will lead to fucking whitewashed movie.
Source: kirkusreviews.com
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So Your Artwork Has Been Called Out for Whitewashing: A How To Reaction Guide
So you’re just living your merry life, posting your great fanart online for friends and fans alike to revel in, and then BAM! It happens.
You get called out for whitewashing.
You! Yes, you over there! What have you done.
Either in the comments or because it was reposted/reblogged by a blog dedicated to pointing out whitewashing, your work has been singled out. What to do?? But fear not, my friend, here’s a step by step guide to navigate you through this difficult time and come out without looking like a total douchebag! Behold, How To React When Your Art Has Been Accused of Whitewashing.
DO: Read the post carefully and all its commentary, whether its a novel or simply a gif. Someone is saying something to you - a good idea is to listen!
DO: Look at your art again and look at the original material. Is there a difference in the skin tone (spoiler alert - chances are yes, yes there is)? Ask yourself what happened. Why is your work lighter? Why did you choose the palette you did?
DO: Fix it! A mistake was made, either intentionally or not. But in the end you used the wrong skin color - go back and darken appropriately and repost the correct art. Yes, correct. Accept the fact that the character you drew is Black/brown/Asian/NOT WHITE and act accordingly (PS - drawing characters as a POC with lighter skin than in the canon is still whitewashing). Now that that’s done, repost with a quick explanation that you redid the skin tone.
DO: Be vigilant next time you draw and think about the character you’re trying to portray and what they actually look like. And voila, you’re done! You’ve successfully responded to an awkward situation and have come out a better artist and person from it.
Yaaay good job high five!
But! Bonus! We’ll include this handy guide of things to AVOID doing so you don’t make a giant jackass of yourself.
DO NOT: Get butthurt or personally offended or irrationally angry at the people who pointed out your fuckup. It’s not their fault whitewashing occurred on your watch.
DO NOT: Just because the people who called your art whitewashed didn’t write a heartfelt long paragraph about why this is a problem and held your hand and stroked your head whispering, “shhh, it’s okay, you is kind, you is smart, you is important” doesn’t mean that their points are anything less that valid. Being snarky or rude doesn’t invalidate the message. If you want explanations as to why Whitewashing Is Bad (and why Racebending is Not), Google is your friend!
DO NOT: Attempt to justify the whitewashing, especially if you provide bullshit excuses like “the lighting! the lighting!”. As an artist, you ought to know that sunlight or fire does not turn POC white. It’s true! Look it up! Google images is here for you <3.
DO NOT: Insult, harass, or otherwise be an annoyance to the people that pointed out the whitewashing. It’s bad form, and it just makes you look like a total ass.
Doing any of these things makes Yoda face palm. Think of Yoda!
So there we are! That wasn’t so bad, was it? And yet it’s quite difficult for some people. Let’s be real - you did something, whether intentionally or not, that is offensive. It happens to all of us - take it from someone who’s been there. Many people have made that mistake - doesn’t automatically make you a terrible person. It’s not hard to fix. But if you’re going to argue that “omg it’s just fandom who cares”, obviously a lot of people do and it’s symptomatic of a larger problem. Don’t make it worse on yourself by saying stupidity like that. Posting art online makes it fair game to observations of all kinds. One last time: using the right skin tone for a character is not hard. Neither is acting like an adult when someone points out an issue in your art. Now get out there and be the best artist you can be without perpetuating racism! You can do it!
Benedict Cumberbatch believes in you.
Interested in the topic? Damnlayoffthebleach and stopwhitewashing are two blogs that deal with the issue. They’ve got great links too. Check it out bro!
Deedee:
I said I was gonna take a break from the blog todady
But!
OMG! COME HERE!
Dyin at the bolded
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Shading Dark skin is so much easier
It was soo much easier when I was first learning how to use photshop back in ‘05 the tutorials they had were pretty much all for pale skin and they were pretty as fuck but I had Black OC’s that I wanted to colour. So what did I do I searched deviantart for great artwork that had brown skin people, discovered The Boondocks and try and then I used the most awesome tool that ever existed on photoshop
Now for those who don’t know this glorious, magical, splendiferus tool called the eyedropper can allow you to same the same colour from anything. For example I used it the other day when colouring in the lineart that Riley drew of Ain from The Arkh Project.
I got a page from the fanart comic strip and used it on the hair, skin and eyes and boom and since I basically rushed it all I used was the dodge tool and the burn tool for highlights and shadows.
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Deal With It!: izziebytes: Deal With It!: I don’t know if it because they’re swamped…
Deal With It!: I don’t know if it because they’re swamped with asks…
… but I feel like I made some good points on whitewashing korra fanart and korraisnottan is just ignoring me because I’m not a blatant vulgar asshole that they can make look dumb, nor am…
Either you completely missed the point I was making or you’re choosing to ignore it.
First of all, I didn’t dismiss you and your comrade as angry black women directly because of your points of view. I reiterate that I feel you guys have valid concerns. Your behavior, however, is what is making you seem that way, and it’s embarrassing. And you know what? Yeah, it sucks that people take anger from certain groups or individuals in different ways. If you want to make a difference, you have to lift yourself above all that. Anger, blame, and bullying are the easy answers that will do nothing but cause people to not care about your opinion. If that’s how you feel, then you’re goal is obviously NOT to actually convince or enlighten anybody, but to start fights and get attention.
Second of all, you’re targeting the artists as if they are directly trying to insult you, when really, most of these are young fans just trying to have a good time. Maybe it’s part subconscious influence of media, maybe it’s just a natural affinity towards the flesh-tones that are most familiar to them, etc. But I guarantee you none of them are intentionally trying to belittle darker skin tones by saying ‘Here, I’m gonna draw this character light skinned because I think she ought to be white.”
Which brings me to another point; when you point fingers and say “you’re whitewashing”, it’s almost inaccurate because to white-wash is to INTENTIALLY and consciously be aware that you are taking a character and making them Caucasian. Which, again, I strongly believe was not the case is practically all of your targets.I’m not being apologetic when I say this; but art is an extension of the artist. When you make the choice to aggressively “call out” an artist for something that was likely an innocent mistake, you’re going to get their unreasonable side back. I’m sure most of these artists would have responded much kinder to the request or pointing out that they should be more mindful of such details. Talk to them on equal part with equal respect, and you’ll get it in turn.
And lastly, you are making a HUGE to-do about a character who’s nationality is not only fictional, but not even based on blacks. Yes, I said it. The water tribe cultures are based on the Inuit, who are Native North American. And we have seen light-skinned Water Tribers within the show’s universe, as well.
So ultimately Korra is or can be considered tan.
Deedee:
I’m going to bold what I’m address because apparently you can’t connect what I said to what you said.
Calling out behavior embarrassing is just another way of saying it’s worthy of being listened to. Like people ignore crying children and struggling parent in a store out of second hand embarrassment, you can ignore use.
The message is both to teach but it also to draw attention. I don’t like it, but I will tell people what is wrong if they REALLY need in indepth explanation and I have. Many times over and over again. I expect people to see a picture and think. Unless they are coming at me with anti -black bullshit (which you have put in this and I’ll get to you and that shit in a second) or they come at me with whitewashed screencaps or lightening bullshit, that’s when I get nasty.
The fact is, I’m trying to have a good time too. I am an artist. But many people on tumblr who are POC are not artist and they are just trying to enjoy the art of Korra. But they and I are getting hurt when they see pictures of a WOC whitewashed because of what you just said!
”Maybe it’s part subconscious influence of media, maybe it’s just a natural affinity towards the flesh-tones that are most familiar to them, etc. ” That! That is the problem. The fact that there are so little WOC in the media that there is a subconscious pull to drawing people as white people or close to white people because that’s all they see. That’s the mindset we are trying to destroy. That white skin is the default because THAT my friend is whitewashing.
Whitewashing happens intentionally or unintentionally, consciously or subconsciously. Just because they didn’t do it on purpose doesn’t mean it’s not fucking whitewashing. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, Korra’s white washed!
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. We put them on show case because there is no possible way they can silence us. I’ve tried before to speak to a few artist about whitewashing in other fandoms and they stuck their fingers in their ears, disabled comments on their pictures, or deleted my comments. They silenced me. They silenced a WOC with comments and valid concerns. This way, they can no silence another WOC if they tried. The more people that have there eyes on them and are asking them why is Korra whitewashed, the less likely they can ignore them. That’s why everything has a link back to the original source.
NOONE HAS EVERY SAID SHE WAS BLACK! THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT HAVE EVER PUT KORRA AND BLACK TOGETHER IN THE SAME SENTENCE ARE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO SAY SHE’S NOT BLACK! FIND ME A SCREEN CAP! ANYONE! ANYWHERE! FIND IT BECAUSE THE FUCK ARE YO PEOPLE GETTING THAT BULLSHIT FROM!
We know that Korra is inuit, no one is trying to turn her black. The fact you picked African though, despite the face she is NEVER drawn with natural kinky hair, and not something like Indian or Middle Eastern or Arabic or Mexican or any race with darker skin and straight dark hair is anti black bull shit. Noone ever comes to us with Korra is not Indian or Korra is not Arabic. But black, it’s always fucking black. Either because the mods of this blog are black (I’m black and Mary is half black) or people think that POC = black , or people think that blackness is the worst thing they can throw on Korra, either way they are all terrible reasons to come at us with that anti black bullshit.
Korra is not tan. Saying she is tan means she started out lighter and her skin now is the result of sunlight darkening her skin. I don’t care how many pictures you find of tan being considered a color, it’s not. It’s the darkening of skin.
Korra is brown. Because there are brown asians. If you see a brown person, you don’t call them tan. You call them brown because you know they didn’t make that skin tone through sitting out in the sun. They were born that way.
Now I’ve addressed everything you’ve had to say, well that was worth addressing. Are we done yet?!
Honestly this is more than a lack of reading comprehension this is some time of creative imaginative type shit reading what you want to read just like the Rue situation.
For example look at this screenshot from a youtube convo The video is about M Night Shymalan defending that bullshit movie
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After reading through this blog, I thought I’d check out some Noughts & Crosses fanart out of morbid curiosity, and see how whitewashed it was. For those who don’t know, Noughts and Crosses (by Malorie Blackman - I absolutely recommend it) is a series about racial prejudice, based on the premise of an alternate history where black/brown people (“Crosses”) are the ruling class and white people (“noughts”) are the oppressed. Basically, it’s a role-reversal of the civil rights situation of the 1960s.
Most of the pictures I found were already worryingly whitewashed - Sephy, the high-class, dark-skinned Cross protagonist, was given straight hair and skin which was closer to tan.
But then I found this.
“Two teenagers struggling against racial prejudice”? I… think Sephy is losing the fight, there.
(No source, sorry - found it on fanpop. And I’m sorry to break into Fanart Friday, but I just… I can’t even)
TayTay:
Side-eying the premise of the book- but that’s just meTHE BLEACH
OH THE BLEACH
Woah this shit is WRONG!!!
Sephy is BLACK, now they’ve turned her into a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white person.
What in the actually fuck? Did this bitch not read the book sorry but what in the actual fuck is going on? Seriously if you are a Black British person you have had to had read this book or at least heard about it and know what it is about like the amount of….o lord.
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You know what is one of the stupidest most annoying defenses for whitewashing in fanart and in films for Avatar:TLA/ Legend of Korra (or any type of mystical world that is not set in some pan-euro word) fandom is?
That “This is not set in our Earth, this is not our universe there is no________here”
This is really stupid and so bloody weak. These people love to ignore everything and want to pull up map and wikia bios saying that the nationalities are Air Nomad not Tibetan or what have you.
Alright let’s just forget all about context and real word influences and fucking Chinese characters written every fucking where. We can forget about architecture and mythology and names and weapons use and everything and all the attention to detail
Let’s apply this “Not set in our world” logic to something else.
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien everyone knows about this book/ films and all that stuff. We are going to forget about all the European themes, mythology and so on… and go with the “not set in our world” excuse. Let’s look at the world map of Arda.
And the middle earth continent. I don’t see no europe around these parts
And according to Wikia Bios it says nothing of any of the characters being European or ever white. according to his wikia bio Legolas is a Elf from Mirkwood not Italy so he can’t be white. I always assumed he and everyone else were just People of Colour who were light skinned probably stayed inside a lot no wonder they were so pale. (I think fan-poodles are turning rabid right now)
OH wait that’s bullshit.
It’s really stupid to think that real world cultures, prejudices and cultures have no influence in a fantasy work of fiction. (Honestly has anyone seen the racist depiction of people of colour in LOtR, the area that is supposed to be Africa the people over there are fucking demons)
This is a weak argument that needs to die, I honestly see it everywhere even in defense of Dragonball’s word. Really bitches really? compare and contrast.
The dragonball map looks like Japan flipped and rearranged
This excuse/argument is very weak, get a new one and I’ll gladly smash it.
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Fantasy Genre and POC
I find it sooo damn funny when White people use the whole “it’s historical, you darkies weren’t there” and blah blah blah reason to justify the exclusion of POC from fantasy fiction. Yet when POC have just the one fantasy book, or game about them White people want to inject themselves and find bullshit reason as to why.
Avatar the Last Airbender film had white protags even though the main characters in the series are not white and the world they live in is high fantasy mythical Asia.
“These characters are Asian”
“Nooooo they are not it says Earthbender not Japanese!!!111”
Yet a POC in something like the Hobbit is just not allowed.
“They could at least have some diverse casting if not in the main cast maybe the supporting hell even in the background”
“Shut up!111!!oneone It takes place in European magic times you darkies werent there”
“Actually there is evidence of Africans and Asian in these places-
“BLAh shut up I like my fantasy whiter than bleach on snow white”
I think the only other times I saw Black people in fantasy medieval europe other than Merlin and Dr Who was in Black Knight with Martin Lawrence (everyone thought he was just a Moor that was visiting from Normandy, France) and Morgan Freeman as a Moor in Robin Hood
Dragonball Evolution based on Chinese folklore
“This sucks man Goku is Japanese, this is based on Chinese folklore.”
“Goku is not Asian he is Saiyan1!”
“Superman is from Krypton I guess that he can be portrayed by any race too huh?”
“NOOO!!111 Superman is an all American hero!”
And of course Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys was to be made into a film but the producers wanted to remove the mystical elements and have the characters be White instead of Black but Gaiman told them Fuck no.
Earthsea was another book that had a POC main cast and world but was whitewashed in the film adaptation even in the Anime.
The Arkh project features POC in a high fantasy game whenever have you seen that? And with a Black lead hero character that is genderqueer? I mean there are so few Black females in video games to begin with but can anyone name me one that is the lead? All I can think of is Catwoman and Shinobu from No More Heroes 2 and you only get to play as her for a short amount of time then its back to Travis
Yet there were white people upset that there wouldn’t any white characters (there are 2 but very minor.)
White people have soooooo many fantasy books, films, tv shows, video games based on Europe with White people and even hijack POC fantasy be content with what you have and let us have ours. Bitching like spoiled children, really.
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