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fandomsecrets2012-09-20 07:02 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-09-20 07:02 pm
[ SECRET POST #2088 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2088 ⌋
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And certainly you can point out that an area is predominantly one race or another, so then it's not weird to see an all-white group of friends.
But there's also the bit where you don't really need an explanation for someone who isn't white or male being a part of the group. It always kind of bugs me when the only ladies in a story are the characters who absolutely have to be female for the story to work.
Conversely, take, say, Pixar's Up! Russel's Asian. Why? Because...he's Asian. There's really no need for him to be; it neither adds nor detracts from the story. It's never addressed, we don't need to wonder why.
Even in "certain areas" it doesn't mean that showing someone outside of the perceived norm is out of place. I live in a very Southern place, not exactly a small town, but not really a buzzing metropolis either. I still see on average about four or five women in hijabs a week just where I work. If someone were writing a story set in my town, that probably wouldn't even occur to them, but it's not all that out-of-place.
It seems like there's a lot of "sometimes it's like that" going on in the comments. And yeah, sometimes it is like that. And sometimes it's not. It's not really a matter of it not being "ok" or anything. Just that stories often improve when a writer looks at anything--characters, settings, actions, dialogue--anything at all that seems like it's coming from the status quo, and asks themselves "why?" They may decide to keep it as is or change it if they get a better idea, but asking "why" makes them more aware of what they're writing and helps the work to be more original.