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Grimpak:

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Yes shes one of the examples I was thinking about.


--- Quote from: AceHigh on December 09, 2013, 02:53:15 AM ---You can pin an archetype in anime to any hair colour, including unnatural ones like pink and purple...

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The ones I am talikng about are blonde and are actually from the states or from the UK

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The blonde from Infinite Stratos is a great example. Soft voice, polite, regal aura and arrogance in the beginning. and from the UK.

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Charl is also blonde... sorta...

AceHigh:
Girls und Panzer!

You have sophisticated blonde British girls driving Churchill tanks while drinking freaking tea all the time!

Oh and you have loud, brash American chicks driving Shermans... and warmongering Russians that threaten everyone on a snowy and cold arena.

fedback:
American blondes are almost 100% portrayed as almost slutty happy go lucky molesters obsessed with wearing really revealing clothes. European bondes ten to be more like high class ladys, and all russian women are assasins from some weird sounding ex URSS country.

Nikkoru:
This isn't an archetype if you've only got one concrete example, and technically Tina's Japanese.

Most blondes are just mukokuseki in action. There aren't huge numbers of American characters I could point to in general, and most are just gaijin stereotypes of foreignness. 

jaybug:
From Wiki
--- Quote ---In many respects, Tina is one of the more deeply developed — and somewhat tragic — characters of the show, despite her ditzy behavior. Being an American, and yet having been raised in Japan, she's constantly haunted by the fact that she can never truly fit in either country. When she left Japan to attend high school in America, she explained that she was unable to fit in there because she was culturally Japanese. But she also realizes that she can never truly fit in Japan either, because of her appearance. Tina wishes that she'd been born Japanese, so that perhaps she'd have a better chance at winning Kaoru's heart.
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mukokuseki-seems to be a uniquely Japanese problem. Because in America, one is either categorized by race visually, or by sound. Because there is somebody's relative in America from anywhere in the world, Americans look the stateless look Nikkoru used. So when quantification for race is called for, and visually it is not necessarily apparent, one tells by how funny they talk. Of course this means that Californians and southerners and New Yorkers are all different races. lol Actually wouldn't that be tribalism?

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