#meanwhile my bf hss black hair brown eyes olive skin and looks asian

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if they care so much that astrid is played by a dark skinned person and doesn't "look scandinavian" then why don't they care that the rest of the cast aren't scandinavian? can you really claim that a person who ISN'T scandinavian looks scandinavian? Just cause you have a misconception that all vikings had long beards and were big and brawly (except conveniently for the of course skinny below avarege height brown haired american boy thats always the protagonist in all american movies) doesn't mean it's true. the people who look most like how vikings would've looked are the people who live in scandinavia right now, so why are they being played by americans? Could it be that an american can portray a viking in a movie because it's fiction? could it be that in modern culture we look different and therefore can portray fantasy settings the way we look nowadays? Can you look at scandinavia, and see that we are now a modern and diverse place, and that a white scandinavian can be THE EXACT SAME amount of viking as an asian looking scandinavian? Because asian looking scandinavians could have one scandinavian parent and one asian parent, and a white scandinavian could have one scandinavian parent and one parent from greece or spain or italy or fucking brazil or usa or wherever the fuck else white people live!

when I watch httyd - or any other american movie about "vikings" for that matter - I don't see myself. I don't relate to anything they do or say. Because they're extremely inaccurate to our culture, and are obviously set in some kind of americanized fantasy version of scandinavia, not a place that could exist in real life. If I see a dark skinned person in these stories, I don't care at all because the rest of the story is already clearly not set in scandinavia during the viking age or any other age so why would it matter. This is why it baffles me that americans care so much about whether the actors look "scandinavian" or whether the animation has dark skinned characters. they will say that scandinavians didn't look like that. but like it's the least they should be worried about?? also actually swedish vikings sailed east and brought people (some were slaves, or they were poor-ish and ended up as slaves because they couldnt afford otherwise. slaves were given free food and shelter) with them back from the east, so its honestly not that unlikely that they brought asian and african people from the east