Huh?
They didn't just disappear they said that over time their skin just got lighter
yeah that part rubbed me the wrong way for sure
well i see what the author used, if you didn't know, researchers actually did find that all races originated from Africa and migrated to Europe, Asia etc. so that was provably what the author was going for to show how their race in the story became what it is now
i didn't see anything wrong with it i thought it was a nice little detail that correlates to real life research and put into fictional interpretation
Why are you suprised? I assume that they had to have children with "white people" so naturally their skin got lighter over decades.
Gypsies aren't black, they're Indian. And they did get lighter over the years once they began moving west and bred with lighter skinned, European people. It doesn't exactly make them white and there are still several camps of gypsies with their more Indian features. Doe I do get wanting a darker skinned protagonist.
they didn’t say they were gypsies in the first page, so how was i supposed to know? + this world is made up so there are literally no ethnicities except for the ones they made up.
It did say they were gypsies in the first chap. They called em Leta Gypsies. And according to your logic, they're not black either so our kind of racism also doesn't apply to them.
racism?? anyways. dark skin = black, so i called them black. they couldn’t be indian in that world, so i assumed they were black.. stop typing to me though.
Since when is dark skin equal to black? Are you trying to describe their skin colour or talking about the race because very few people use the word black while describing someone who is not, well part of that race. Middle easterners have dark skin as well; Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Arabs etc. I'm just pointing out your incorrect assumption that the MC's ancestors were black since historically gypsies are of Indian descent. And if they're being called gypsies then the inspiration is clearly taken from the real world context which makes them dark skinned and Middle Eastern, but not black? Is what I'm trying to say coming across?
what the fuck? all the black people just disappeared for what?? can’t read this cause they just grazed over that and acted like that was okay. strange asf.