[ SECRET POST #2795 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2795 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]


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03.
[Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers]


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04.
[Jeeves and Wooster]


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[Yahtzee/Zero Punctuation]


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[Markiplier]


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[Jackie Chan Adventures]


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08.
[The Parent Trap]


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09.
[Alexander]


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[Starsky and Hutch]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Except the fact that Shadow is frequently POINTED OUT TO BE mixed race, with people REGULARLY COMMENTING ON THE AMBUGUITY, is kind of a plot point.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

What plot point was it? The book thoroughly bored me, I legit don't remember. When was it a point?

[(Anonymous)]

It's mentioned a couple times in the book, I wouldn't say it's a huge plot point. There's a lot going on in American Gods - I think those details could be easily missed.

[(Anonymous)]

OH. Well when YOU put it LIKE THAT, it totally MAKES MORE SENSE!

[(Anonymous)]

His race isn't an issue at all, it's his ancestry.

The descriptions and allusions are pretty vague, which wasn't helped by the fact that I read the book as a ESL, Latin American person, so a lot of the specific descriptors flew right over my head. I just pictured the most basic body-builder/jock type of guy.

[(Anonymous)]

People asking if someone is mixed race =/= saying that someone is mixed race

the most you can say is that he's of ambiguous ethnicity and possibly mixed race (just going from the descriptions in the early part of the book)

[(Anonymous)]

People ask me if I'm mixed race because I have a big butt and "asian" eyes. I'm the whitest girl ever with white ancestors. I've been asked if I'm Polynesian, part-black, and a few other things.

[nyxelestia]

Throwing in my own two-cents on this. I'm Indian, but kinda light-skinned for a Bengali woman (probably due to fraternizing with white people in my family a few generations back), and my bone- and hair-structure aren't the most obviously Indian.

I get asked what my race is ALL THE DAMN TIME because people have trouble telling - and I usually don't tell them, but make them guess. It is incredibly rare for anyone to guess Indian, or even Asian. Most people first assume Hispanic (which, brown girl living in Los Angeles, it makes sense). After that, they go all over the damn planet trying to guess my race, often taking over a dozen guess to get there (or just never getting there, giving up, and then being surprised when I tell them).

I've been mistaken for everything from "very tanned white person" to "half-black", with just about every ethnic minority under the planet thrown in.

It takes surprisingly little to throw people off about race.