![]() ![]() Putting aside the race controversy for a moment (and by the way I hope I wasn't offensive at all in that discussion race is always difficult to talk about but is kind of the elephant in the living room when it comes to Seychelles), there's of course the weird general bashing of her that is usually attributed to breaking up yaoi pairings, which. ![]() Of course keep in mind this is literally all just from Wikipedia just now I'm hardly an expert on Seychellois demographics and culture and history. Also, out of all the African countries to be drawn as lightskinned, Seychelles makes relatively good sense because (at least according to Wikipedia), there are no peoples indigenous to the island, but the current population is made up of (descendants of) French, English, and people from various parts of Africa (with a small minority of Indians and Chinese), so there is probably a sizable White population as well as Black (two of the four presidents of the country, at least by my judgment of their pictures, are White - and yes, there have only been four presidents of the country so far, since it's only been independent since 1976 and indeed our earliest knowledge of any discovery of this island dates back only to the 1500s and settlement by the French began in the 1750s). I mean, her whitewashing is a bit of an issue but as with all characters her exact appearance varies.
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