Whitewashing Non-white Countries

[ohmypizza]

I hope that this doesn't only bother me.  I'm not talking about Studio Deen whitewashing Seychelles, Egypt and Turkey, since someone already covered that.  I'm talking about the fans not doing their research and rendering a lot of non-white countries lily white.  I've seen too many examples of this.  People who make Greenland OCs tend to especially

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[alexander_rowe]

Finally someone addresses this here. I'm normally a lurker to Hetalia_Wank, but by god I had to come out of the shadows and comment.
I know what you mean about people whitewashing personifications of places that should be like the natives that live there.
I have seen everything from white African countries (Benin, Nigeria, and Madagascar) to Fiji, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Martinique not looking like natives at all but cookie cutter blonde hair blue eyed sues.
It's terrible and it shows just how ignorant some people can be. When making personifications, it's a learning experience. Not everyone in this world is the same, people are different and that is what makes our world such a wonderful place.
Another thing that grinds my gears is when people say: "Oh they were occupied by France, England, America, etc. that is why they are blonde". Well what you need to realize is that they were their before any of those nations showed up...

[nodokaotonashi]

"Another thing that grinds my gears is when people say: "Oh they were occupied by France, England, America, etc. that is why they are blonde". Well what you need to realize is that they were their before any of those nations showed up..."

Yes this. I mean... look at countries like Cameroon or Egypt ! Are OC makers too afraid of making some countries more tanned than others ?

[ohmypizza]

I'm usually a lurker, too, even though I did post something that was annoying me in the free-for-all wank post this community had a while back. This is my first true post, too. I was waiting for someone to talk about this, so I just took it into my own hands

[arachnes_web]

I really never thought there could be anything more annoying/offensive than the good 'old kink meme standard of Hawai'i being America's and Japan's butt-baby...but you found it. O.O

[ohmypizza]

IKR? I've seen the America and Japan butt-babies and said "LOL no". I find it annoying and offensive because it's like the other ethnic groups who live here never existed. Native Hawaiians? Psshaw. Filipinos? (which are also the biggest group in Hawaii due to continued migration) Nah. Chinese? (even though they were here before the Japanese). Whatever. Samoans? Who are they? Then, again, I believe that nations just pop up and some other nation come in to take care of them or they grow up on their own without caretakers, like how America is in canon. It makes more sense and doesn't get messy when it comes to nations with all sorts of different ethnicities, when you would need at least 3 biological parents to make it accurate and so that you wouldn't end up with a kid with darker skin than both of its parents. People have to realize just because a nation has a conquerer and a large amount of a certain ethnic group doesn't mean that that they are the biological parents of said nation.