>>115894602>doesn't even say "don't do this"That's kind of retarded. Do you think the person that wrote this was trying to get people to USE them? They just worded it in an inoffensive, halfassed way.
Anyway, my problem mostly is that two of the examples given on the first cliche and one of the examples in the second don't fit the description at all. Following these examples it'd seem like you're not supposed to have any black characters at all unless those characters feature heavily, which sounds to me like the opposite of the goal here. Or if that is the goal it strikes me as unreasonable - not every face in a work has to be a totally fleshed-out person with a plot thread of their own.
The third cliche just doesn't make any sense at all.
>while not impossible, it is uncommonFiction, especially when elements of fantasy are involved, is usually written about uncommon people. Visual elements that make them stand apart from your average joe are common on characters of ALL races and it's got nothing to do with implying that a particular race "must have" certain features to be desirable. In this case it's just a color contrast thing.
