They'll just pick and choose what they want from other cultures and frankly, it's getting disrespectful. You don't get to do that. You don't get to curve out the undesirable parts of a story YOU CHOSE to make.
The plot is about a white looking middle Easter prince who has fought to stay in his position. His mother looked exactly like him, and his dad looked like his brother, and while he is mixed and rightfully the heir to the chair, people doesn't see him as the right fit to be the next sultan because he is white looking, and they have tried to murder him because of that, hence why he hired the FL.
People, the whole plot is about that!! Why are you both so triggered about that?
Ik what the plot is. It’s the fact that they chose a white looking middle eastern to be the ML. In a middle eastern country. There is no representation AT ALL for any one of darker complexion in shoju and webtoon especially as leads. So when a story takes place in the ME why are authors and artist once again centering a white looking person and cherry picking cultural things to incorporate that frankly just makes the ME look like it’s on,y a war zone. Its white washing plain and simple
No fr like its so annoying. Every time a middle eastern or Egyptian based story is created the characters all have pale skin or just straight up look white. I have NO IDEA why these artist refuse to write brown and black characters into their stories. It’s also annoying to see him being discriminated against because hes half white when in reality ppl with darker skin in the middle east are treated worse than ppl with fairer skin and more eurocentric features.
I mean if I was them I would be mad to. I really don’t understand why light skin Asian/ white people are ALWAYS the center of media. Like they are literally in the Middle East country and yet somehow we still have a blonde blue eyed ML and a light skin East Asian FL. It is so tiring to see authors and artist continue to center characters that match a blank sheet of paper.