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 is ‘no that question never came to my mind’, but I’m 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 weren’t always great and she’s had some other internal stuff, but she definitely does. And she isn’t particularly sad?)
I’m also a second generation immigrant, myself, so I think if anything I may have drawn a bit on that?
…Also I’m going to note that while to be clear I’m not mixed race and can’t speak to that, as a more general thing, while there’s definitely many tropes that are a problem, ‘plays into stereotypes’ is a statement I’d often be wary of? There’s 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 it’s 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 I’m part of - ‘Russians drink vodka all the time’ is shallow-stereotype type thing (I feel like I’m lacking words here), but there’s 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.)
