[Is Mihoshi African-American with blonde hair and blue eyes?]

Luriko-Ysabeth said:
:
:Dark skin with pale hair *is* a natural combination, as can be seen from
:the native inhabitants of Australia.

    This is only true for certain groups of Australian aborigines.
    Besides, blonde hair and blue eyes are recessive traits.  I'd
    like to read up on any research that discusses evolutionary or
    environmental factors that may explain these traits.

    Note: non-brownish hair outside of geographic Europe is rare.

:(Oh, BTW, someone denounced Mihoshi's brother as a fan rumor. He's
:mentioned in the 101 no Himitsu when it talks about Mihoshi's family in
:Question 71. "Otooto wa shisucon no abunai yatsu desu shi..." I *think*
:it's saying that he's a person with Dangerous Feelings about his sister.
:Ew.)

    Yeah, that's what it says, and you got the implied message...

:On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 TenchiMP@gate1.tomatoweb.com wrote:
:>
:> i think this is kind of racist, dont get me wrong, im well aware that most
:> anime has lots of unequalaty in it...i.e. the # of male to female ratios in
:> most series, especialy tenchi. i just think its wrong that there arent more
:> black men/women in anime.

    You could probably make a similar case about black people in
    regular TV series, movies, novels, even the media.

:In nearly as many series, there are a lot of men to one or two women. It's
:only recently that series with women proliferating have been abounding.
:(And this is good, because Japan -- which is forty years behind us in the
:Equality-of-gender movement -- can benefit from seeing women doing all
:manner of tasks well, even if most of them look like refugees from a
:Heinlein novel. [I, personally, wouldn't mind looking like a refugee from
:a Heinlein novel.])

    For the lady Tenchi ML members... if you could be more like a
    female character from any Heinlein novel, who would you choose?
    Friday?  Eunice?  Minerva?  ^_^


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