How do you portray a non-white character without making them a stereotype but not to the point where they're white...

Yes

no

They are in Western cartoons, where the majority are white. It's just recently when they push more non-white/characters of color.

I'm a second generation Hispanic. I was born in the USA after my immigrant parents met here. I grew up speaking mostly English. I don't insert Spanish into my daily speech. In fact, I barely know know to speak Spanish in any practical capacity. And I know I'm not the only one.

As people like me continue to have kids and raise them to speak English, future generations will completely lose touch with their ethnic roots. They will simply cease to be Hispanics or Latinos or Chicanos and just become brown Americans. Future representations of brown Americans in cartoons/tv/film will have to adapt to that. Having some brown kid randomly insert Spanish into their sentences will eventually become an outdated, racist stereotype. We're pretty close to that point now in my lifetime.

This, but I'm a hoppa

As a bilingual myself, I find it weird how bilingual characters randomly inserts foreign words. I would speak in English in one conversation and the foreign language in another. I guess some societies do that like Singaporeans, but even they use their second language in full phrases, not as random exclamations.

Lots of mexicans aren't even brown. One of my friends in middle school was second generation hispanic and he was as blonde as me, and I'm third generation German American.

>please don't offend my fragile white people sensibilities by having characters being different than me
lol fuck off
white girls have no ass

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>As people like me continue to have niños and raise them to speak English, future generations will completely lose touch with their ethnic roots. They will simply cease to be Hispanics or Latinos or Chicanos and just become marrón Americans. Future representaciones of marrón Americans in cartoons/tv/film will have to adapt to that.
Couldn't have said it better myself, amigo.

Most cartoons have such a minimalist design that the skin color can be the only difference. For more subtle design differences you could use Dee Dee, Mee Mee and Lee Lee as a reference, since they are just race bend versions of each other.

That's strange, coz I heard that Latinos could differentiate between Latinos and Gringos

I always thought it was weird they had second generation kids do that, I always associated it with kids who immigrated with their parents and still mostly spoke their mother tongue at home.

shouldn't you be robbing a store?

A good example is Anne. She doesn't spout random Thai words while her mom speaks full Thai

I'm not latino so I don't have this mystical power. He had blonde hair so I just assumed he was white American like me. I say I am "German Ameircan" but I never even knew I was German until I was an adult and looked into family history. Nobody in my family ever spoke German and our family name is ambiguous at best.

>white people with a different skin color
If that's you're mentality you've already failed.
As long as your entire crew isnt wonder bread someone should catch any obvious pitfalls but falling over yourself backwards to make "racially accurate" characters will result you making a fool of yourself

That's great. You should try exploring your German heritage and see how it affects your family and their worldview. A lot of White Americans are out of touch with their roots so they end up feeling insecure

It entirely depends on the writers and showrunners on how they're portrayed though. Even if the actors aren't white, they don't have much of a say about how the show is run

hey your gf says hi

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I don't really have "German" heritage. I was raised as an American. I consumed American entertainment, ate American food, spoke English. Germany was just a country like any other, mostly irrelevant to my life until I learned its where my ancestors came from a long time ago. And it's still pretty irrelevant. Cartoon Network had a bigger impact on my life than Germany.

How about not care what the media cares about your fucking character? You obviously know what is racist and what is not, and you know what is bullshit and what is not.
t. jogger

>They will simply cease to be Hispanics or Latinos or Chicanos and just become brown Americans.
And sometimes they speak for Hispanics in Latin America when it comes to representation baka

True, I was referring more to writers/directors. I think the current climate has people being more careful/allowed to speak out. I believe some studios have "sensitivity councils" as well so something like that works to keep woke-signaling creators from acting like full out racists in the name of diversity.

>How do you portray a non-white character without making them a stereotype
not like pic related.

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write your characters without any race whatsoever and then roll a die to assign race.

>but not to the point where they're white people with a different skin color?
what fucking bullshit. who the fuck declared that all character traits are inherently white? fuck off.

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How do you do that? Nothing is void of culture

I'm second generation Mexican but people who don't know that assume I'm some kind of slavic

>I barely know how to speak Spanish
It's shocking how quickly the 2nd generation assimilates. I'm 2nd generation too and already get that "you're so american" from my parents. I hope I can keep my kids at least a little connected to our heritage.

You can possibly argue that with globalization, in the future there will be no different culture, just one unified culture.

I have to mix in English when I'm speaking to my parents in Chinese, because I don't remember the Chinese words for a lot of things. So if anything it's not your "ethnic" language creeping into English, it's the other way around.

>I hope I can keep my kids at least a little connected to our heritage.
Why do you care about that? They can probably be like and just be "American"

Maybe

>who the fuck declared that all character traits are inherently white?
Cultureless Amerimutts and their autistic obsession with their made-up one-size-fits-all """"""race"""""" who think being Mexican or Nigerian is like picking what color shirt you want to wear. Arguably, this is in the long run a good thing

>argue
that's a fact.