![]() ![]() Race is the idea that humanity can be sorted into discrete groups with unique behavioural and intellectual characteristics, largely corresponding with physiological differences and similarities between potentially related groups of people. Even if the faulty imagination of a "White Europe" were true (it is, to reiterate, not true), the modern Western world that generates the bulk of our entertainment is demonstrably not a White world, and to insist on a performance of Whiteness in the media where the diversity underlying the real world is erased cannot be justified except by (a worryingly racist reason). ![]() The imagination of medieval Europe that serves as the template for your bog-standard fantasy setting is White, because Europe has historically been imagined to be White, as a project to imagine the presence of supposedly non-White bodies as interlopers, outsiders, people who do not belong. But historically, right?īlack and Brown people are "historically accurate" to any fantastical rendering of Europe. Of course, if you look at Europe, you'll find Bangladeshis running gulyás éttermek in Budapest, even though Viktor Orban told me Hungary is for white people. There is a point to this: Westeros is not real, but it does represent a vision of Europe, and so we can expect the people within its world to look European. ![]()
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