i find these stereotypes in all mangas that have Muslim/ Arab based characters it's a very toxic stereotype to portray especially for ppl who don't have the opportunity to interact with these individuals often in real life
EXACTLY !!! shits fr so problematic especially when most viewers aren't muslim and may take the way the muslim characters are portrayed as face value. the misrepresentation is, like you said, so toxic and honestly its so disappointing to see Korean authors glorify white christian type characters as well
Honestly the same can be said about other ethnicities but I've seen it mostly with muslim/Arab ethnicities and it is fucking rampant in harliequuin mangas like omfg
DAMN STRAIGHT. and don’t even get me started on the way they portray indigenous people or tribal religions and cultures. shits straight out of a John Smith handbook like sis I-
they fetishize it so bad i always cringe i just. pul never read it
like I totally get that the emissary dude just showed up out of the blue and is an inconvenience but for them to include a very clearly muslim character and have them act as a vain villain to make yet another arc where Marie saves the day is so annoying.
like them being all like "seems like he values his religion more than his own life, hes so annoying" like what ??
that shit was just disrespectful and they even used the terms haram and halal
like ive seen so many versions of the turban wearing desert dwellers or what ever but this was so so clearly a weak attempt to make a problem for Marie to solve at the expense of an islamic value.
being disrespectful of a person or religions values is so out of pocket and the way the author picked and chose which things the character was serious about showed a lack of research.
muslims aren't meant to show up at other people houses because its seen as rude and disrespectfu towards the other person. and if they’re given a meal while being a guest, its actually good manners to eat what your given if your host was unaware of it being taboo.
again ik this is off topic but like the image the author created is just so gross and I had to say sumn