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Re: Dear mr lucas...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:52:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Shiri Dori writes:
> > In lugnet.starwars, Bryan Hodges writes:
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> ->snip<-
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > > 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.
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> 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.
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> Bruce
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 tend to always win in the plastic galaxy wars though. :-)
-Lord Insanity
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| (...) ->snip<- (...) ->snip<- (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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