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@mgtask

I think you’re totally right…writers do tend to follow stereotypes for characters. I think one of the reasons for this is because characters represent who we want to be (and everyone wants to be Aragorn😄). I think another reason is that we’re not educated with how minorities think and act…so we revert to what’s familiar.

I would totally like to see writers accurately represent people from other cultures. I feel like too often all our main characters are white, and anyone else is boxed in by stereotypes. For example, it seems that Native Americans are almost always tribes that lived on the Great Plains, lived in tepees, rode Paint horses, and spoke in broken English (“Me does not like white man”…sort of thing).

I think what you posted is important to think about. Thanks.