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[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

I get the point of the meme and all that, but that whole thing about calling out Scarlet Witch for being played by someone that’s white is kinda troublesome to me.

Wanda’s dad is Magneto, a Jewish white guy. Her mom isn’t mentioned much but she’s Romani, which is its own ethnicity; and ethnicity is not a skin tone.

[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Americans are the only ones who regularly equate skin colour with ethnicity.

[-] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Yea, many other cultures associate it with wealth/class. They are so much smarter.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

one of the many areas most Muricans are ignorant about

[-] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah Romani in Western Europe are often white passing or straight up white, and mircrakagovia or wherever they are from is quite obviously an eastern Europe analogue.

Scarlet witch is probably white, maybe a bit swarthy

[-] LarsIsCool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Maximoff_(Marvel_Cinematic_Universe)

Wanda is depicted as a Sokovian refugee

Sokovia (Соковиja, Sokovija) is a fictional landlocked country in Eastern Europe that is the home of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, as well as Helmut Zemo.

Eastern Europe more specifically

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