Being tan and/or having green eyes has nothing to do with being arabic? wtf
[ ^that’s what people use as an excuse when they’re picking a faceclaim or when they’re whitewashing lmao. They use the ‘not all x people look like x!’
Of course, not all arabic people are tan, but they’re not WHITE either. Those who speak arabic and have whiter skin are middle-easterners (and then again, not all have whiter skin, but you get the gist), there is a difference.
Being pale =/= being white. I’m an arab, and my country has both extremely dark to extremely pale, but the skin is kind of yellow-ish, brown, pale. Not ‘white’ pale. So yes, not all arabs are tan, but they’re definitely not white.
It’s like when they used Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia. Like...if you’re not gonna be accurate anyway, why not just use a poc? Or in Exodus with Joel Edgerton. Or all of the Bible (Jesus, Moses,) movies with all of the white actors.
It’s almost as if...being darker was considered bad. They refused Idris Elba for 007 just because he looked too ‘street’. Idris is like the most elegant man I’ve ever seen wtf.
Then people tell me they’re trying not to follow the stereotype that most ‘non-whites’ are dark, but what’s wrong with that stereotype?
As for the green eyes...It was more specifically for Damian’s case. Because as I mentioned, all robins got the Wayne blue eyes. But to be honest with you, I’ve seen more arabs with blue & green eyes than anyone else (I, myself, have green eyes).
Also, don’t forget that Damian grew up with his mother, in a place where the sun is stronger than in the US, so of course he’d get tan, or at least darker, naturally if he wasn’t already.