Alright monster high tag Iām going to explain you about racial codingĀ because some of you still canāt understand how a cartoon character can be a monster andĀ have a āhuman raceā to go along with it.
So first off we do not live in a bubble. Nothing created exists in a bubble. It is all influenced by the surrounding culture. Black children are going to look at Honey and say āhey, she has hair like mineā and relate to that. Mexican children will look at Skelita and recognize the sugar skull and be drawn to her. Things do not exists in a bubble.
Now for racial coding. Racial codingĀ is when you take a non-human character and codeĀ them as a specific type of race, or ethnicity. Now, sometimes racial coding can be racist. Examples:
All these characters are very obviously supposed to represent a certain race even thought they re non-human. The problem is they are represented racistly.
Now on for some good examples!
Luigi is a car, we all know he is Italian.
Flow is a car, we can still tell sheās black.
Eduardo is a imaginary friend, we still know heās latin@
Wilt is an imaginary friend, we can still tell heās black
Jinafire is a dragon, we all know sheās Chinese
Marisol is a Maricoxi, she is still obviously South American & Latin@ (tbh she reads as Peruvian specifically to me)
Hello Kitty is a cat, because she is created in Japan and is often displayed as participating in Japanese culture we know sheās Japanese.
So even though Honey Swamp is a monster.
And if you canāt see that you are a racist.
Black folk get shit for their natural hair all the time. When you, as any race other than black, straighten Honeyās hair you are part of the problem and are racist.
I hope everyone learned a thing :)
P.S. I will not be responding to racist trying to defend themselves.Ā
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