[ SECRET POST #3382 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3382 ⌋

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Comments

Re: "Mentally whitewashing" anime?

[(Anonymous)]

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On the other hand if they're being told Takashima Fujiko is Japanese and refusing to accept it that's pure racism. Being unable to personally picture her as a Japanese woman in real life but accepting that she's meant to be Japanese in canon and seen as Japanese by everyone else and should be drawn or portrayed that way is not the same as insisting she's white, drawing her white, writing her as white in fic, or whatever.

Re: "Mentally whitewashing" anime?

[(Anonymous)]

I think for me it's more the latter. Yes I know they're intended to be Asian (and as someone who lives in a VERY heavily Asian populated area it's not an unfamiliarity thing), but some characters are so... generically designed, or so off the wall designed, that honestly if it weren't for their very Asian names I might not have coded them as Asian if someone had just shown me a pic and said, "What race is this character?"

My answer might have been, "Uh... white?" or "Probably Japanese?" since I'm familiar with anime and the fact that a great deal of it IS set in Japan, or even, "No idea?" because I've seen some characters that I might have coded as Eastern European, or Hispanic as well, and yet they're intended to be Japanese.

Re: "Mentally whitewashing" anime?

[(Anonymous)]

That'd fall under the latter of the two things I described at first then, at least imo. "I guess she's Japanese then." If I saw a brown-shaded character I'd assume she's meant to be black since that's what I'm more familiar with, but if I was informed she was Indian I'd shrug and say "I guess she's Indian then."

It's the people who would insist the Japanese character is white and draw/fic for her as white, saying she's white to them so everyone else can fuck off, that I'd call racist. And yeah, I've seen people do what I just described.