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This probably doesn’t add anything that hasn’t already been said to the conversation, but I come from a country where the majority of the population has a mix of indigenous, African, and European ancestry (unfortunately the first colony in the Americas) and if that quote from Suzanne Collin’s is true (“It is a time period where hundreds of years have passed from now. There's been a lot of ethnic mixing.”) I’m going to assume Seam folk have a similar background. I’ve seen firsthand how two siblings with the same parents can be born with wildly different physical characteristics (ex: my grandma with very dark brown skin, eyes, and black hair vs her sister with very light tanned skin, brown hair, and green eyes).
“Appalachia is 90% white”
“Katniss is only described as olive skinned, that like so many Europeans”
“Prim’s blonde, that’s weird for a biracial person.”
Bitch shut the fuck you and just say your racist ass doesn’t accept that the Seam are stand in for minority races. Having two pasty ass group of people with different hair colours isn’t going make anyone notice or analyze the class divide between the Seam and Merchants. I fucking hate the movies for white washing Haymitch and Katniss because their Seam backgrounds are exactly why they understand each other. They have their own small culture and identity from the merchants.
It also visually shows how Peeta and her mother are outsiders. It’s important. It matters!!!!
And I get why Katniss and Haymitch were white back when the movies first came out, but times have fucking changed and I want the representation that existed in the books from the beginning.
Second of all, you can be biracial and have blonde hair as long as both parents have the fucking gene. 12 is small as shit, people get around and cross townlines from time to time. Shut the fuck up.
I fucking hate it here.
