Talk:Stina Heks/@comment-38091275-20191005002647/@comment-32987979-20191021043824

@Hermabeth Foster

As a white person, I completely understand where you're coming from. It does get irritating when people seem to forget that Caucasian is a race too, and that it's not fair to discriminate against us as well. It's all about finding a good balance. Having a wide range of all sorts of races is a good thing for many reasons, and it's important not to discriminate against any of them. The problem is that the majority of books have an imbalance of Caucasians and other races; I have yet to find a book where there are very few white people (other than, for example, Miss Jane Pittman, which is focused on the period after the Civil War of course the main focus is on African Americans.) I'm not saying its impossible, just that I don't see it as often.

The problem with KOTLC is that the elves claim that race isn't even important, so there should be a good balance of every race in this series, shouldn't there be? It becomes an issue of telling but not showing. If it's not bad because other races have poor representation, it's bad from a writing standpoint. Don't tell me that there are elves of all different races and then not actually commit to creating these characters.

Another big issue is the fact that there are, like, very few mixed race couples seen throughout the series. The only mixed race couple I can think of are MAYBE Cyra and Prentice (I don't know if Cyra's skin color is ever mentioned?) Edaline and Grady are both white, Della and Alden are white, Gisela and Cassius are white, Juline and Kesler are white (at least, it's implied based on their children all being white; can't remember if they were both described as white) and most curiously, Mai and Quan are not only both "Asian", (it's never explicitly stated what Asian ethnicity they're based on so forgive me) but they both have Asian first and last names, and so do their children. I thought race wasn't really a thing other than physical characteristics in these books... so why is this family so stereotypically Asian? From where I look at it, it all boils down to Shannon failing to fully think through the world she's created here. I'm not upset because it's racist (I don't even know if it really is racist,) I'm upset because it's just bad writing plain and simple.