Talk:A Courtesan of Rome Miscellaneous Characters/@comment-37758703-20181225222521/@comment-36277500-20190614105403

I'm not, it rather makes me laugh. "Oh, that medical intern, may I guess her great-great-great-(...)-great-grandmother was Roman?"

I'm rather annoyed that they are unable to draw other races, like Asians and Egyptians. They base on stupid stereotypes more than real anthropology knowledge.

Pixelberry's whole knowledge is reduced to the fact that Asians have yellow skin tone and slant eyes... I've seen some manga/anime works, where artists were able to catch more similarity to their models. Example: Anime Characters DO NOT Look White!. I know that not everyone is Asian, but there are many Asian immigrants in USA (big cities still have Chinatowns and Japantowns), so I won't buy that Pixelberry had no living models to imitate...

And if they were too (lazy) busy to get into the car/bus/metro and look at their own neighbours, they might at least (download) buy/rent some movies: Japanese Ringu (The Ring) and Ju-on (The Grudge), Korean A Tale of Two Sisters (The Uninvited), Chinese The Eye, Thai Shutter... I mean no obscure Ringu-clones, but canonical Asian horrors that had their remakes in USA.

Also, Pixelberry seems to not know that Native Americans are related to Asians (they migrated through Syberia to Alaska, then spread to the East and South). But for PB, they are just Caucasians with tan skin.

The same goes for Egyptians. The whole Pixelberry's knowledge is that they had olive skin tone, black straight hair and heavy makeup. That's another example of ignorance. Due to burning sun and heavy heat, Egyptians used to shave their heads (to not lose water with sweat) and used hats and wigs (to shield their heads from the sun, and - especially women - to not lose their attractiveness). According to some anthropologists, they were related to Levant people, so their natural hair might be actually curly or wavy.

I sincerely doubt that Delphinia's wig would endure 20 years in Gaul, as well as her cosmetics (there was different flora in Gaul, so it would be harder for her to find the components). Also, Gaul's climate was way colder than Egypt's, so shaving her head might be fatal for Delphinia (I mean hypothermia, pneumonia etc.). Moreover, to survive in barbaric tribe, she should became one of them, including having her natural hair and local haircut (Gallic women used to wear braids, buns or Roman haircuts). Also: woad makeover was characteristic not for Gauls (Celts from continental Europe), but for their cousins Britons (Celts from British Islands), mainly Picts.

The same goes for Cleopatra, who was also different than Pixelberry's version, including her natural hair: real Cleopatra.

But nooo, Pixelberry used the same stereotype for Delphinia, Cleopatra and Isis - they are just the same person, but at diffrent age.

So I understand using the same sprites, but I don't understand slackness as an explanation to not doing their homework. PB poses a political correctness while showing ignorance bordering actually with racism...