the only thing lighter skinned hispanics would be upset about is that it isn't actually true.
imagine being treated like a human instead of an immigrant who cleans toilets/cuts grass for a living
That's a pretty American POV to look at it from brah.
the idea that people from a certain country need to look a certain way--enough to be confirmable by "the majority of the human population" or "random people on the street" as hailing from a given country (nation states are a young concept for one, just as one example of how dumb this is) is just a hilariously fucked up can of worms
fuck reading all that. would the average homo sapien on the street read that before coming to a knee jerk national-racial assumption about a video game character! I think not!
I know this wasn't aimed at me, and there's truth to the notion that usually the people who think Japanese anime characters are white are white Westerners (maybe you could call this another form of appropriation, or in this sense trying to make the character more ethnically relate-able). It's a serious problem not just in the Western (American mostly) anime community, but in the comic and video game scenes as well (not Asian related, but the posts in that Clemente thread here were just rancid and disgusting. It's like most of the people saying she couldn't be black never stepped out of their homes to do anything in life, they were crazy).
But let's not beat around the bush; to a typical American or non-Japanese person (and hell, even to many Japanese people. Video games aren't completely synonymous with Japanese culture even though that's a popular stereotype), at first glance, they'll perceive Karin is white, possibly British, from a royal British family. It's not just the hair; it's the clothes, the mannerisms, all the little things add up to that. The basis for that assumption is obviously rooted back centuries, but you guys are pretending that the vast majority of a given sample group of random people, who know nothing about Street Fighter, aren't going to assume she's white or at the very least European or British, and you're lying to yourselves.
Are those people wrong for assuming that? Yes. But it just goes to show how limited diverse representation of ethnic minorities in Western societies actually is, and it's a societal problem. The onus isn't on SFV to change that (in a way a character like Karin is a step forward, because it shows that you can be lavish and rich and royal and proper etc. without being ethnically European), true. But if those people are wrong for assuming a character like Karin is white simply because of her hair and dress, Capcom's equally "wrong" in stringing them into thinking she is, and you guys are equally as wrong for pretending it isn't an issue and that people are "complaining" over nothing.
FWIW though Zissou's equally wrong for looking at it in a limited POV.
Fuck it, everybody's wrong. We're all wrong together. Equality.
we pretty much already know who is left and it ain't him. kinda wild that there wont be a final fight character in this street fighter game.
