art racism

actually i've gotta admit, he's got a point; you don't see many different skin colors in animes. in fact i can name all the black characters i know on just both hands, and i watch plenty of animes. i think it's just unintentional though, i don't think they really mean to be racist or anything of the sort.

so i'd say the dad is at fault for making a fuss about it, but at the same time he does raise a decent point.

 

They're (Normal Manga, anime, etc) Japan. There aren't many Africans or those of African descent in Japan. Thus, they are drawn far less. It's not racism.

 

Well it sort of in art has to deal with the background location. A lot of art that you see whites in are European background farmers, and of that nature. However the minute you head down south and look at the music centered in, especially New Orleans, you see a whole lot of Afriacan Americans in art playing jazz music. Then in abstract art a person shows no idenity if they're black or white.

Art isn't sort of racist in that sort of thing, but usually art reflects the artist's own ethnicity background, if the artist is German, they paint Germans, that sort of thing.

Plus if you want to be real teachnical, music is a form of art and especially with jazz, there are a lot more African American musicians mainly because drums sort of came from Africa.



Also with Anime and Magna, they're white because they're usually from Japan where there aren't many African Americans there.

So final summary, art isn't racist, but shows a personal background, herritage, and life.

 

i remeber that story from a while ago, it was on an article i think.

anyways you also have to remember the environment they're in. it's like toph said, maybe they are thinking unconsciously about those little girls in terms of drawing. chances are if they're in a place with a different race they may tend to catch on things that the race has.

his dad probably did that because he wants him to get in touch with heritage or somethin, im not entirely sure. the dad should be proud for your friend having artisitic ability anyway, most people can't really draw.

 

What's interesting is that cross-culture symbolism is so different. If you asked a Chinese girl, she would probably choose the black doll since to them, the colour white symbolizes death (contrary to our 'black'). There was a pandemic in Canada (which is very multicultural) in the 1940s I believe...many of the Chinese people who went to the hospital were terrified because the doctors wore white...the scrubs were subsequently changed to teal (which as far as I know, is a neutral colour to just about everybody).

As for the topic of discussion, there's only one thought on my mind: If a white kid drew too many blacks, would their parents would be upset?

 

Going off to what your last comment was Mike, it probably would have to do with their background.

My history teacher freshmen year mentioned this that people in Southern states in the U.S. (the states part of the confederacy) were still strong against the northern states(being part of the union) That when he was down there for a while he'd be called a "damn Yankee" and other names associated with the union, this was during his college years(1980's-90's) but that's not too long ago.

Anyways to my point, I'm sure white kids living in the south who had family back during the civil war part of the confederate states, I'm sure their parents would be mad at them, however versus a kid in the nort with family in the civil war part of the union, I'm sure they wouldn't care.

So to the main point of all things, it would most likely heavly lay on the shoulders of the background of that family and such.