Originally Posted by
bupjo
so much swirling in my head about this topic. i remember as a kid that when i saw kung-fu movies, those movies were my only visions of chinese people and asian people in general....and japanese always running from radioactive monsters. so i stereotyped them completely. i never had personally known any asian people and my only knowledge of them were movies i've watched. so the same could go for the images black people throw out there that shape other peoples vision of us to other races that have not personally known black people. so i think at times we do a disservice to ourselves by how we portray ourselves in movies, music, etc.
but racism does things to the psyche that unless you have been a target of racism, no one would understand why this topic even exist. when i first played KINGDOM HEARTS on PS2, and saw all the other FF7 characters, i wondered why Barrett wasn't a cameo in the game. first thing i thought...because he is black. then i wondered with all the dark-skinned beasts running around, the major beast characters are light-skinned....me thinking, i guess dark-skin isn't good enough? so racism sometime have you looking for it when it may not even be there. or maybe its there and cleverly hidden. Afro Samurai is the only major black anime character i was like in shock to see. cuz it just so rare to see a major black lead character in anime. but then there are the stereotypes. RAVEN from Tekken i don't think fits any stereotypes that i can think of. life is funny sometimes, i'm black and my RL wife is asian.
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