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any cool black or foreign people in anime?
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: furuoshiki on April 17, 2009, 04:23:06 PM ---Those last two guys are possibly Indian!!!!
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Interesting point. The thing is in the world of anime it is hard or sometimes impossible to recognize racial features. I mean most japanese there have the biggest eyes ever. Some anime shows some hints of race like for example Samurai Shamploo does with their caricature animation style. Add the fact that hair colour ranges from the whole visible spectre of colours and we have a hell trying to figure out what race a person is.
Talking about Indians....
kardz:
--- Quote --- cool
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--- Quote --- black people
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oh you
furuoshiki:
Well her name was Rakshata, right? Then she's definitely supposed to be Indian.
Plus I think Code Geass was pretty upfront with indicating races. But I think most Indians in Anime have either blond or white hair to somehow differentiate them from blacks.
And Hispanics are always given some curly afro or wavy hair texture that is either brown or black.
These are of course horrible indicators that have no logic or rationale behind them...but this is Anime we are talking about so....
AceHigh:
And all really black guys are muscular. Because it is a stereotype view, when viewed in non offensive context it is actually amusing. (But then again in anime an american is usually either dumb or stupid ;D)
barcibus:
I think, technically speaking, there aren't a ton of white/caucasian people in anime either (granted there are far more than black people); they're almost all supposed to be actual Japanese people.
I think it is just natural for anime (and manga/books/movies/tvshows/music) to be focused on what they are used to seeing in Japan. I wonder how many black people there are in Japan (outside U.S. military bases)... the number's got to be quite small.
What I wonder about is how anime characters almost always look white/caucasian to me, but do they look asian to Japanese people?
I'm not saying it is the same situation in Japan, but this reminded me of a documentary I saw in which a black woman was sharing her account of what happened when she visited a remote town somewhere in southeast Asia. Apparently, the people she met had never even seen a black person before. Everyone was just drawn to her and kept touching and ogling her in complete wonder and amazement. The way she described it, she was overtaken with a feeling of being special... there was no sense of negativity or racism.
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