Subtopic - Why did DC white-wash all of their indian-presenting characters?
>>151006378You seriously underestimate how easy it was to not know anything about, or give a fuck about foreigners back when this was written.
>>151006453It's not really about when this was written. Raven is a weird, incense-burning, dot-headed, saree-wearing, overly-religious foreign girl and they stripped all of it in 2003.Also did the same thing to Jinx (this one only for the cartoon) and they just did it to White Rabbit too. It's a pattern. Like casting redheads as black.
>>151006689>weirdYeah. It was supposed to be weird. Eventually just being Indian wasn't enough.>saree-wearingI don't think she ever wore a sari.
>>151006767I don't think you actually read comic books.
Beast Boy was racist against Indians (both types) before it became trendy.
>>151006378looks indian enough to me
>>151006767they made her a mall goth
>>151006378Perez Raven looks awful.
>>151009893Nah
>>151009893Awful take.
>>151009959>>151010345Wrong.
>>151009893>>151009959>>151010345>>151010588Raven was kinda intentionally being drawn uglier because she was being subtly influenced by Trigon.Everyone just kinda forgets that and thinks that's how Raven is just supposed to look normally.
>>151010663Not exactly. Perez slowly changed how he drew all the characters over those first few years. He decided to lean into it when they started planning Terror of Trigon. Raven was still pretty in The Judas Contract.
>>151006378I always figured she was a parody of white girls who wanted to seem interesting and exotic so they went with Indian aesthetics BUT she was actually genuine?
>>151012747Azar and her teachings are loosely inspired by Zoroastrianism and Perez went on record saying raven was modeled after Persis Khambatta. Seems pretty obvious it was meant to be genuine.
>>151006689Is it really whitewashing in white rabbit's case when her power in her first appearance is to turn into (or rather summon) a white woman.
