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> There's a reason why marginalized communities care about "representation". Seeing people like themselves represented in the mainstream helps a marginalized in
by atom-morgan 8y ago
> There's a reason why marginalized communities care about "representation". Seeing people like themselves represented in the mainstream helps a marginalized individual see the path to an advanced level in an industry where they are a minority. It's inspiring.
As a mixed race person, I couldn't care less about representation and find the obsession with it to be very weird. I can't relate at all. I have plenty of role models and their race, gender, religious affiliation, or sexuality means nothing to me.
Whose feelings matter more?
- keerthiko 8y agoMy guess is that as mixed race, you probably aren't marginalized (usually by "passing" as whichever is easier for others to accept you as). This is less about being a minority by numbers (Stanford grads are a minority...). My point was also that representation of marginalized people doesn't harm you. Or do you get discouraged from pursuing your interests seeing fictional representation of marginalized communities? Please don't trivialize issues that affect millions of people into a question of "whose feelings matter more?"
- atom-morgan 8y ago> My guess is that as mixed race, you probably aren't marginalized (usually by "passing" as whichever is easier for others to accept you as). That's quite the guess. What's the difference between a black person and a mixed black person if they're both perceived as black (passing)? > My point was also that representation of marginalized people doesn't harm you. It depends. In a blog? No, even if I think it's silly. But representation has slowly creeped from "nice to have/ideal" to a mandate by counting up the people in the room , reducing them to group identity, and crying injustice if the numbers don't match national averages.