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Yeah and all the DARK barbaric man thinks of is bloodshed and lust. Like be fucking For real. Like next thing you know, he is pounding his chest and going “ooga booga”
stereotypes and sexualization/fetishization arising from colorism, racism, and orientalism, which east asian cultures can and do engage in towards other asian cultures even though they are also targets of orientalism from western perspectives. read (or find a summary/explanation) of Orientalism by Edward Saïd.
im TIRED of the “fair, gentle, PALE” lady x “barbaric, tribal, savage, DARK” man trope like genuinely so tired of it, why do some of these asian authors consider people of darker skin tones ‘exotic’? your not a good writer at all if you think and write like that