>>109468134>Is it racist to judge something by its race or is it pride to see your own race represented.There is a thin line between pride or reject of one's etnhicity and racism, since racism is the belief that race has an effect on one's quality as a person or on your personnality, or that it define you or a group. And for the most extremist, that a race put you above or below others. (Racism, like all things, is a spectrum.)
I'd say your story isn't related to race as much as it was a cultural issue. Culture you rejected/dissociated from because it hurted you and/or ended clashing with your values. Race, religion or cultural nationality are very easy to confuse.Pretty normal since a lot of cultures put religion or nationality on a pedestral. These usually have racism embeded into their values.
Wanting representation isn't something bad in itself but it's also not something you should enforce like a self-entitled baby. "Diversity" will naturally rise as the profiles of creators get more diverse, and it will get more diverse once more poc families reach middle or upper classes (because this condition let children pursues artistic ambitions with more ease).
That said, Representation is also a mouvement/claim that has attracted a lot of casual racist within its ranks, making it trickier to dissociate racism and representation. As it can be with race and culture.
