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  1. surskitty

    Racsism in pokemon

    I think what bothers me most about Aloe is that I can't write her off as a goddamn mammy stereotype. She is and that's ... I expect better. But she's also fucking badass and she's the resident fossil nerd and so on and so forth. It's ridiculous that her Japanese trainer title is NATURAL-BORN...
  2. surskitty

    Racsism in pokemon

    Slight bit of a difference between eating a hamburger and using racial stereotypes! For Pokémon Black and White, they very clearly spent a lot of time trying to get the random not-Japanese right. There is a lot of English and Spanish and French and German and Italian in this game! There are a...
  3. surskitty

    Racsism in pokemon

    Lenora seems to be fine! (I've been looking through the script most of the day.) But Aloe is still really, really gross. Japan has a totally different idea of racism, yes; their idea seems to be it's not really an issue. Hence things like trying to get people who have lived in Japan for...
  4. surskitty

    Racsism in pokemon

    No. I do think modelling a character off of Aunt Jemima while everyone calls her "Mama" regardless of actual relation is, however.
  5. surskitty

    Racsism in pokemon

    I would really like to know why there is a discussion on ~racism in Pokémon~ that has not brought up, say, Aloe.
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