do you ever worry that your sad mixed-caste characters who didn't feel like they fit into their caste (e.g. askingalright) play into negative tropes and stereotypes surrounding mixed-race people?
Could you elaborate on that?
The answer to your direct question isĀ āno that question never came to my mindā, but Iām not sure what more specifically you might be referring to?
(Also, did you possibly confuse my character with someone else? askingalright totally likes being green; peers and society werenāt always great and sheās had some other internal stuff, but she definitely does. And she isnāt particularly sad?)
Iām also a second generation immigrant, myself, so I think if anything I may have drawn a bit on that?
ā¦Also Iām going to note that while to be clear Iām not mixed race and canāt speak to that,Ā as a more general thing, while thereās definitely many tropes that are a problem,Ā āplays into stereotypesā is a statement Iād often be wary of? Thereās definitely real problems it can point to, but it can also involve a kind of victim responsibling in some cases, or be used to attack portrayals of things that are in fact real and good to portray. And also itās important to recognize differences between like, bad gross-stereotype stuff in media and properly recognizing-people-as-people representation of things that are totally real.
(To go with a possibly less charged example and a group Iām part of -Ā āRussians drink vodka all the timeā is shallow-stereotype type thing (I feel like Iām lacking words here), but thereās totally real stuff about alcohol and Russian culture and history and stuff, and having characters drawing on that very valid and the opposite of a bad thing.)