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Re: Dear mr lucas...
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Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:32:34 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Bryan Hodges writes:
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> > I've always seen yellow faced minifigs as "white." Maybe this is because I'm
> > white, but they just seem like white folk to me.
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> Really? I don't recall ever thinking of the yellow minifigs as anything but
> yellow. Even, or maybe especially, as a kid - they weren't associated with any
> color to me. Just yellow. • ->snip<-
> I don't see why - in LEGO-world, just right now (until TLC confirms this one
> way or another) it seems that *everyone* is yellow.
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> > Also, you're right, color doesn't matter. However, humans are different
> > colors, and to ignore this fact by making the figures in a childs toy all one
> > color is somewhat racist. Looking at minifigs kids are bound to associate
> > them with their own "race," excluding all other "races."
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> Children have very simple minds. They wouldn't neccessarily relate it with ANY
> color - they would probably not even think of it.
I posed the question to my son (who's now nine, but I think he was seven at the
time). I pointed out that (almost) all Lego minifigs are yellow, but no one is
actually bright yellow - did he think of them as a particular race, or just as
yellow colored toys representing anyone. He thought of them as "white"
(european). He associated the value (relative light and dark) with what we
term as flesh-tone for europeans. But then, he may view many asians as "white"
in skin tone - I'll have to ask him that someday.
Bruce
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| (...) I'm (...) any (...) one (...) ANY (...) the (...) is (...) "white" (...) Interesting. I have always (even as a child) thought of mini-figs as the inhabitants of Legoland. There are no humans in Legoland on Planet Lego or otherwise. They did (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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