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floralovebot · 2 years ago

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What are your thoughts on how nickelodeon made the Princess of Linphea lightskinned? Was this them trying to whitewash Linphea?

That's interesting!

I mean listen I wouldn't put it past them yknow? This is rainbow and nickelodeon, two companies very cozy with whitewashing and racism. But I do think this could've been more innocent on their part. We didn't see a lot of the people of Lynphea in the first three seasons but we did see some, notably Miele who is also very lightskinned and could very well be white or very white-passing.

I think it's also important to remember that Rainbow is,, pretty bad with racial sensitivity and they treat all of the planets as very "color blind" so to speak. Like Melody is considered the "Asian planet" yet the princess is likely wasian but so white-passing that most fans thought she was completely white. We've also seen multiple other characters from Melody that don't "look" asian (obvs being asian doesn't have a "look" but in the realm of animation and rainbow racism? yeah they do). Nabu and Helia are both heavily asian-coded, yet Nabu (and his family) is from Andros while Helia is implied to be from Lynphea or Solaria.

We also see multiple shots of the crowds on other plants like Domino and Solaria where you can see characters that are definitely Not White. And while those characters could easily be from a different planet, they're also usually wearing the clothing associated with that planet and are considered Part of the people.

Rainbow often mixes different races and ethnicities for literally all of the planets. Like the argument that a character couldn't be from one planet because they aren't a specific race does not work in the winx universe. All of the planets are incredibly "mixed". And again, while there's obviously a discussion to be had about whitewashing cultures, being color blind, uncomfortable implications of colonization, etc, the princess of Lynphea being a white girl or at least partially white-coded or white-passing is actually really on brand for them and not something that I would entirely blame Nickelodeon for.

#and listen im Not saying that these planets wouldnt be mixed or cant be mixed #i mean obviously just look at earth #the way rainbow does it just usually comes off as very color blind racist whitewashing yknow the usual vibes from them #rainbow never intended for any of the planets to represent a specific group of people #the only one they really did that with was melody and even then it was Barely #like it is still very much the East Asian plus occasional southeast asian planet #but we still see characters of other races and ethnicities on melody #we also see other asian coded characters Not from melody #like... rainbow just never actually meant for any of the planets to be That Specific #it may have been completely unconscious but i wouldnt be surprised if it was a very conscious decision on their part #its ironic now obviously with all of the whitewashing and racism but iginio was originally very excited about winx being diverse #him wanting winx to be diverse is literally the reason that we have characters like flora and aisha #so i wouldnt be surprised if them making the planets very Mixed and Ambiguous was a conscious decision #and again thats not to say that they did it in the best way #more often than not it comes across as tone deaf or straight up racist #but yeah ANYWAY i really don't think nick is at fault for krystal being white/white-coded #that's definitely on rainbow and they likely weren't Trying to whitewash lynphea as it was already like that #answered

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