Talk:Michiko Malandro/@comment-173.66.147.167-20130513003122

People are upset about this anime becasue people are racist- how many anime or cartoons actually have a person of color as the main charater that aren't perposly racist or sterotypical ? you can proably count them on your finger if you can think of any  at all- Miciko is Latina however south ameirca is a race of people that have an extreme mix of native,african and white people. They were one of the first people to be conquired  during the time of colonization so the more women were raped,and had even less protection against the crime as they do know [and it really hasn't gotten that better]. Thats why you will se a lot of latin american people who "appear" to be Asian, white, or black their genes are very mixed.- Black is an ansecure term used to talk about anyone who has some African American decent..so if you want to be technical Mitchio is still Black but she proably ID more with someone who is Latin American...the show is based loosely of Brazil so she is a fictional Brazillian charater.

It is imporant to have charater of diffrent ethnicies becasue weather you like it or not the world isn't made of just White and Asian people and its imporant to represent people of other culutres so young people have someone they can identify with. That being said this anime is mearly based of the observation of Latin american culutre and not a real understanding so if you take judge based soley on the correct portral of latin america culutre it doesn't do so well. It attempts to ballace this out by not going into detail about a lot of things that happen but the loop wholes are their