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⌈ Secret Post #1612 ⌋


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Comments

[ariseishirou.livejournal.com]

But the people you're referring to are, at that point, mostly white and would probably code as white to just about everyone, and therefore have access to white privilege. What I'm saying is more that I've never seen anyone who would code as bi-racial to the majority of people who was blond (plenty of them blue-eyed, sure, but not blond); only people who would code as white - who may or may not happen to have some ancestors of another ethnicity.

[kallanda-lee.livejournal.com]

I must say I have definitely seen people who code as bi-racial who are blonde, or even redheads (this is not uncommon for the Berber people, for example). They are rare, but they are out there.

But I meant more that the argument could go both ways. You can be olive-skinned (or Mediterranean-looking if you will), both from solely Caucasian descendance, and you can have that look from being mixed, too.

To claim a character is one or the other based on the looks of her family members is not exactly science, and since the author didn't state it one way or the other, we will never know.

The fact that there are blondes in your family does not wipe out the possibility for having a mixed heritage, and doesn't mean that other members of that family might not look mixed.
Also see this article, and it's not the only case out there: http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/01/05/biracial-twins-is-one-quot-black-quot-and-one-quot-white-quot.aspx
The article also makes some interesting points.

Phenotypical differences in siblings from mixed race origin can be large enough to make on code as white, and the other as non-white.

So if you play all things fair, the casting should have been open both to darker skinned Caucasians, and lighter skin mixed race people. Which it wasn't.