Anonymous cat · 3d
Hi, sorry, obviously you can critique any fic you see fit but as I am a person of color living in the U.S., I don't understand why you're calling Gojo a "white American man" there as if Japanese Americans do not exist. And as far as I can tell that author never called them white. Being a non-white migrant in America does put you in a complex cultural context but it doesn't just immediately strip you of all ties to your culture. It doesn't erase your heritage or make you white, especially considering most popular culture to come out of America is heavily influenced by the Black and brown people who live here and who carried over a lot of their cultures prior to European colonization. Whitewashing Japanese anime characters and ignoring their race or ethnicity is a problem across many fandoms, but that's not necessarily the same as changing their nationality for an AU.
I have no problem with the author making them wasian, in fact I think that would’ve solved the whole thing. The problem is she didn’t. Not once in the fic is “Japan” ever mentioned, or the culture or the people or anything (mind you it’s not that she can’t mention it, since she was well aware to mention Hispanic people working on fields). She herself mentions this is something she chose, again she could’ve make them travel there, study there or be mixed. She willingly didn’t.
This is something she did on purpose and because she wanted the two characters to be American, she placed them there and stripped them of their culture. I think people are allowed to do whatever, but just as they are I’m allowed to call it what it is. A whitewashed version of gego.
All that I have left to wonder is why is that it was this whitewashed depiction of gego that caused so much obsession in some individuals and such parasocial relationship. I’ll leave that up to you to ponder. 😂
