Whitewashing Non-white Countries
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 ( Read more... )
Yeah, after reading everyone else's comments it pretty much confirmed what I knw, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't somehow in the dark about the whole issue. There could have been something factual that I completely missed x__x;;
As for characters in anime/manga, that's a whole different thing all together. like one of the teachers on Soul Eater was black, and I don't think he was drawn in an offensive way...but then he gets turned into a zombie @_@ But then there was that black student who shows up later and he didn't seem like an offensive stereotype to me either. (I'm sorry I can't remember the kid's name, I have trouble remembering the names of most of the cast OTL)
Then there's the characters on Basquash, which don't look like offensive stereotypes to me either, but...when you think about the premise of the show, I guess it would be a LITTLE offensive xD;;; (But that show has a French Guy's name on it, so some people aren't even sure if it counts as anime)
Then there's the fact that most anime/manga don't give ANY of their characters a trace of ethnicity, (like the Caucasian people will look like the Japanese people, and anyone that's non-white will just have a darker skin tone) so everyone has the whole generic cuteness thing going on, but people get offended because they don't exactly look "black", just, as I heard once before, "white people dipped in chocolate" |D;;; (not sure if that makes any sense OTL)
Anyway sorry for the rambling @_@ Some of the other comments mentioned something about black characters grunting in fan art? wtf I don't even see that happen in ACTUAL anime/manga, so why are J-fans even... ; _ ;
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