I remember people having this same issue with Big Hero 6.
A lot of fans did not like that Hiro and Tadashi were portrayed as being mixed race. It’s like these studios are pretending to give us diversity but instead of going all in, they throw us this whitewashed, mixed race mess. No. Go all in. All or nothing. This isn’t real diversity. This is so big film execs can pat themselves on the back and all-white fandoms can feel good about how ‘diverse’ they are. Stop it.
Fun Fact: Mixed race kids actually exist. And more and more kids are born belonging to two or more races every day because of how many different races exist in America and the fact that interracial couples are becoming more widely accepted.
A lot of those mixed race kids will grow up being told that they’re not black/asian/hispanic enough because they’re half white or half something else. They’ll be teased and mocked for taking part in their own culture because they’re “only half”. They might even receive negative treatment from one or both sides of their extended family because of what race the other side of their family is.
More and more interracial couples are getting married in the US. More and more mixed race kids are being born. People need to learn to start understanding that being mixed race doesn’t make you “not enough”. Mixed race kids are both and they are neither. And they are becoming the norm.
You think being mixed race isn’t real diversity? I am half Italian, half Puerto Rican. I grew up with two incredibly different, vibrant cultures in my household. I listened to Pavarotti in my dad’s car and Salsa music in my mom’s. For dinner, we eat my abuelita’s arroz con gandules and my bisnonna’s homemade spaghetti. To me, being half and half is incredible. I got to experience an entire culture that I would’ve never learned about if I’d been only Italian or only Puerto Rican.
When a character is mixed race they are not more and they’re not less. They are who they are. People thinking that mixed race characters/families are less important than single race characters/families is incredibly ignorant as well as harmful to the many mixed race children in the world who will grow up thinking that they are worth less than their single race friends.
Reblogged for A++ rebuttal. There is not a goddamn thing wrong or less diverse about mixed race. Most of America will be mixed race before too much longer, after all.
Mixed race children exist! I’m so fucknig frustrated with people treated mixed kids like they’re watered down representation.
My grandmother came over here from Mexico, and she was shamed into not teaching her mixed children spanish or anything about their culture. And they had to hide as “White”
White passing priviledge is holding your breath as people are racist around you and when you try to speak up hope they don’t fucking notice the features you have that make you “dirty” in their eyes.
I’ve had coworkers be super fucknig racist and make border jokes to me, and then I would be like dude that’s not cool. They’d stare at me and theyd realize and theyd treat me different. Try to get me fired.
But because of the fact that my mother is white and my dad is already “Watered down” a little. im not spanish enough. im fake. no matter how hard i try to learn my language. to learn my culture. [to take scraps ive learned from all the spanish aunts I have to build some semblance of it]. I’m not good enough.
So fuck you. FUCK YOU. Mixed kids are important too. They arent more. They arent less.
THIS!!!
Someone should also point out that as a species we wouldn't even exist unless our human and even prehuman ancestors didn't mix. It's not only not bad or whatever cheap shot they are using its completely necessary. If we don't mix we die as a species. Fuck your race. Our survival as a species is much more important.
Humans wouldn't exist had we not bumped uglies with literally everything we came into contact. We are basically the direct descendants of Bonobo apes and honestly they look a lot happier and nicer than many humans. Maybe we fucked up?
Stop smearing other races it show a truly fundamental lack of understanding in even the most primitive of human survival instincts.
We have sex. Fuck your judgmental bullshit. We have sex. Stop dictating where when and who with is acceptable. People Fuck. Get over it.
