manticoreimaginary:Within the walls of Troy…Hecuba - Gong LiAndromache - Indira VarmaCassandra - Sui
manticoreimaginary:Within the walls of Troy…Hecuba - Gong LiAndromache - Indira VarmaCassandra - Sui HePolyxena - Bingbing LiCreusa - Gemma ChanHelen - Megan EwingWithin the walls of Troy resided five Chinese women and a Swiss-Indian woman - and one Black woman because idk. No actual Greeks in sight to be represented. Actually, in this universe Greeks don’t exist at all and you cannot find real people, Greek celebrities, by a simple Google search. The Greek heritage figures are reduced to a blank canvas for American politics. How progressive of the foreigners! “But I wanted to represent Asian women!” I wonder, is there no other way to represent Asian women without race-bending figures of Greek culture? Don’t you know myths from their own cultures so you can put them there? And you seek representation in another culture? Why are you entitled to do that, exactly? And are you also entitled to change any other figures of other cultures? You could even have chosen people from Minor Asia to represent (as you probably know (?), the Trojans were Frygians, not Greeks) if you think we Greeks look boring.Then you would have represented the historically correct type of Asians, instead of slapping another Asians on top of them. As, I think, you believe, Asian people and cultures are not interchangeable. Moreover, Mediterranean people are never deemed able to represent our own mythology and instead we are called lazy and barbaric and exotic by Westerners. (If Westerners every entertained the idea that, we, the Greek people continue the culture and have established figures).If you have more questions about my blog, please read my faq (link in my description). -- source link
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