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I honestly really like this pic, but for the satanic Pinkie in the back. Looks like the booru doesn’t agree, though.
Such a brave hero.
Actually, it was me. But I didn’t want the drama of this image following my account.
My guess is that the mods just wanted us all to be happy so they gave us a lovely gift by putting this back on the front page.
>>two years ago
SORCERY!
“My point? You can justify any race you want with equal validity, and even calling Zecora black depends entirely on stereotype. Witch doctors, after all, aren’t unique to any one place.”
Thumbs up times ten.
Lord Niggertron’s arguement, combined with Mayojar77’s, already disproves your over-the-top whining.
I don’t recall saying anything about Lord Niggertron’s argument… But in all honesty, claiming that a voice actor’s performance dictates race is a spurious claim. Not everyone from a particular race can be identified by vocal pattern, and even if they could, voice actors don’t always sound like a person of the race that they’re voicing.
Leaving aside the question of whether Tara Strong’s Omi voice actually sounded Chinese, I somehow doubt that anyone in the show is actually trying to sound like an equine of any race. Also, while Omi was supposed to have an accent on account of not speaking english natively, the native english speaking Sari Sumdac did not speak with any inflection of note, beyond being young and excitable.
And the point of being over the top is to point out the absurdity of assigning human races to fictional non-humans from a different world. It always involves editing the facts one way or another. You might as well assign Star Trek aliens human races. It would make about as much sense.
Their race is based on their identifiable origins AND show given ethnicity based on lingo and features.
Identifiable origins? What are those, again? And what kind of racial feature does a horse have? What language are you talking about?
That’s a serious question, by the way.
Horses as a species are native to North America and the ponies from the show are seemingly native to the same continent as the buffalo, so being Native American would make sense from that line of thought. Making the ponies European based on their castles and whatnot would make the buffalo also European, or maybe something like Mongols. Making them American/Canadian means a spread of possible human races, which would actually reflect the three (at least) pony races.
While Zecora has the strongest argument for a specific race, she’s still using a culture from a different place than where the species that she’s implied to be comes from, as was mentioned above. Assuming that she’s from somewhere other than where either her species or most of her cultural influences originate in the real world isn’t much of a stretch.
Especially since we have at least one culture in a place that doesn’t match the location of it’s real world analogue, and zebras have only been said to be from a “land far away,” while Zecora’s personal origins are a mystery. We have no idea whether or not Zecora is actually from where zebras as a whole are from, or where zebras as a whole are from.
Additionally, Zecora is actually capable of passing as a pony, based on looks. If all the ponies are white, then, well, she was actually passing as white at first. She wasn’t thought to be a non-pony, after all, and they’ve seen non-pony equines before, and Zecora still registered as a pony rather than anything else. So, a humanized Zecora would look more like the humanized ponies than a humanized donkey or mule does, and they live in the same culture as the ponies.
For what it’s worth, there’s at least one pony that’s generally considered black, so take that as you will.
My argument is that applying any human race to candy colored ponies is arbitrary. They are not human, and therefore have no human race for an artist or writer to conflict with.
@Lord Niggertron Twilight is geeky azn bitch confirmed.
@Lord Niggertron And the other half is Frank Welker. Even some of the girls.
@when she felt her wings unfold I know she’s supposed to be bouncing, but it looks like Pinkie is as out of place and inconsistent in body proportion as a One Piece backgrounder.
Lord Niggertron’s arguement, combined with Mayojar77’s, already disproves your over-the-top whining.
Their race is based on their identifiable origins AND show given ethnicity based on lingo and features.
That’s why those 2 are so much smarter then you….you take their theories to the extreme instead of their rational stopping point. Its an incredibly old tactic only used by idiots cause it makes you come off as whiny and irrational.
The Gods Must Be Crazy
I pretty much agree with that. And your previous comment, while perhaps taking the subject too seriously, also pointed out how silly it is to take the subject too seriously; it was just poor timing on my part that my comment appeared immediately after yours.
I don’t care what race someone uses. Insisting that any particular race is any less arbitrary than another is what bothers me.
Think about what you just said. The first problem is insisting that a species is only a single race, which is known to be false. The second is insisting that a humanization matches the origin of that species.
By that logic, all of the ponies are either Native Americans or Asian, as horses evolved in North America before moving to Asia. Since you’re saying that movement around from the place of origin doesn’t count, they don’t have the same ethnicity as people from the places that they moved to.
Keep in mind, that the colonial history of Equestria in no way resembles that of the real world. After all, they’ve been on the same continent as the buffalo since the formation of Equestria, so they’re North American rather than European, assuming that you want to base geographical locale off of that. Species have moved around differently than they did in the real world.
Oh, and Zecora was originally thought to be a pony rather than a different species. That means that a humanized Zecora would appear to be the same race as the humanized ponies, rather than looking like she’s a different race.
My point? You can justify any race you want with equal validity, and even calling Zecora black depends entirely on stereotype. Witch doctors, after all, aren’t unique to any one place.
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It’s possible.
so we have this nigga, calling eveyone a nigga then some niggas arrive and start to calling this nigga a nigga, the nigga goes mad and gun all those nigga down and say “niggas, you don’t mess with a nigga!”
Then we must all know the real reason why Zecora came to Equestria.
Kudos to anyone who gets the movie reference.
nigga, you can’t just go around calling everyone “nigga”, that is wrong, nigga!
She’s a traveler. She could have picked up any number of skills while on her way to Ponyville.
Hell, her teaching method looks a bit like eastern martial arts, if martial arts involved telekinesis.
But mountain zebras are limited to Namibia and the Cape. A mountain zebra Zecora would be a Khoisan bushman, not a Bantu-esque witch doctor.