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The List - 6 Awesome People of Color in Anime

As for the wage gap, the idea that 'women just choose jobs that pay less' is because fields that women traditionally choose are less valued by society and thus pay less. It is because women flock to these fields that they pay less. Fields that used to be more male-centric, like teaching, pay less (by ratio) than they used to. We undervalue fields that women excel in and overvalue ones that men excel in. Even STEM fields that are more popular among women are generally viewed as less esteemed and pay less. And it is FAR MORE difficult for women to advance in fields traditionally considered 'men's work' than it is for men to.

anon827449 wrote:

You need to understand that Tumblr is not a good source of information. It has a lot of irrational, insecure, selfish fools who spread things about "straight white males" having privelidges, when they absolutely do not in Western society. Do not get indoctrinated about this ridiculous myth.

My opinions are not at all influenced by tumblr; which is a site that I only ever use for fannish things.

Perhaps you could, on the flip, not allow your opinions to be influenced by reddit/mensrights or stormfront of wherever you've been reading?

Class might be relevant, but upward mobility is substantially more difficult for women and POC (especially blacks). Racism makes it near impossible for them to reach upper class society.

kazenoyume wrote:

Class might be relevant, but upward mobility is substantially more difficult for women and POC (especially blacks). Racism makes it near impossible for them to reach upper class society.

I agree with everything you said to some extent except this. Do you have any statistics? Because my personal experiences disagree.

My dad was an illegal Filipino immigrant who crawled his way up to upper middle class within the span of my childhood. I know many rich Filipinos and Asians, to the point I occasionally joke about those rich Chinese kids with BMWs. As for blacks, well, the president and a good number of government officials are black, so they or their ancestors got significant amounts of money somehow.

Race-wise, it's not as hard as you think, and you're exaggerating the issue severely. Gender-wise, well, there's the education gap, so that may come in due time even if it's not now: http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274,00.html

So... who decided this PoC thing? I'm a latin guy and I really dislike that term. It lumps all ethnicities (aside from white) into one group so white people can be comfortable saying it without (hilariously) worrying about sounding racist. No? Am I reading too much into it?

Anyways, Caska made it in so it's all good.

Seriously though, PoC... ugh...

Ah, I feel obligated to mention that it was a good list. I feel a little pity that the author's efforts to be as politically correct as possible caused a little chaos in the comments. Just a little though.

Chad from Bleach would have been a fantastic choice for inclusion. His character isn't a racist caricature like Avdol nor a one-dimensional woman like Claudia.

I would probably have replaced Avdol with a non-stereotypical Jew: Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop.

Seriously, this list was rather specific about "color".

ペンネーム wrote:

Chad from Bleach would have been a fantastic choice for inclusion. His character isn't a racist caricature like Avdol nor a one-dimensional woman like Claudia. I would probably have replaced Avdol with a non-stereotypical Jew: Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop. Seriously, this list was rather specific about "color".

Wait, how is Abdul a caricature of Egyptian Stereotypes?

Because having one positive aspect to his character negates the fact that his backstory drips with racist baggage, right?