Why in almost every human based cartoon the main characters are white?
6 Answers to "Why in almost every human based cartoon the main characters are white?"
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I don't know the nationalities of most people who are doing the writing, so I'm not sure precisely how applicable this is, but people tend to write about what they find familiar. Even in fantasy, comedy and science fiction, they'll default to that sort of thing when they're not creating fantastic, comedic and scientifically elaborately characters.
I'm white and Scottish, so when I write, my protagonists will be white and Scottish unless there's a compelling reason to write them otherwise. If I threw in a black person (for example) with no real reason, then I'd just be creating a token ethnic character, which would be just as racist.
I honestly know nothing about most of the writers of these cartoons, but it seems reasonable to me that they might just be writing about the kind of environments and characters they're already familiar with.Like (2)
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The guys who make the cartoons are white. If it wasn't for tokenism there would be no black characters at all.
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true but if you also look most villains are also the same it is just a perspective of the animators mabey it saves ink or something but it is weak and lame
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just wondering. the white characters who are villains,are thier faces usually painted over or covered to an extent?
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Homer is yellow, Cleveland is an african american
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homer would be white and you cant deny it. and I said ALMOST every cartoon
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Easier to do the facial features........NOT a racist comment i hope just a fact
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Posted by Larceny 1 Apr 9th, 2012 at 2:33AM
probably because most of the black type cartoons from way back were deemed very racist? idk. it's a good question! there are a lot of tanned characters though, and I've seen animés with different races... I guess it just depends which cartoons you're talking about :S
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Reply by Daphney1001 Apr 9th, 2012 at 2:35AM
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