Talk:Hazel Rainart/@comment-50.24.174.227-20161123010205/@comment-30575318-20161129210655

I mean yeah it was a joke. If it wasn't a joke it would be considered stereotypical and insensitive to say "oh this asian woman looks young because whiteys age like shit." (not that Monty would say that. Also I'm just using "whitey" as an example of extreme language that someone trying to be hurtful could use, I'm not speaking against people with white skin since I'm the palest person I know tbh.)

I just mean... by that logic, just because the technical country of origin doesn't exist also means that it's possible that no one on team RWBY is white. I don't like that in order to discuss race, the words for the country of origin can't be used. Like saying Flynt is "black" doesn't say that he's from anywhere, but saying someone is "Asian" is going too far because Asia doesn't exist. I can't call them "oriental" or just "yellow," man, both of those words are insensitive. I'm not yelling at you here I'm just saying, talking skin color is hard without using the countries that don't exist.

To be fair "German" isn't a race. A person born in Germany does not have to be white, although someone with German heritage is likely to be white. I guess the same goes for "Asia" which does not denote a skin color, but they're a good deal more xenophobic in East Asia than specifically Germany (not that Europe and at least the US aren't also) so foreigners are often unwelcome.

All this article had to do was say he was "tan" which is ambiguous and names no race and does not confirm that he is white or any other race.

And to Arkanto95: Yeahhh I hear you but I mean... Salem is literally white and doesn't appear tan, idk. I know the lighting is wonky but that means we also can't confirm that he is anything other than ambiguously dark.