>>29480184>white-passing ArabThis actually is what pisses me off the most about this post.
See, I always had this headcanon that the Pokémon World is far more tolerant of different ethnic groups than our world, as its residents value Pokémon over anything else, and people are generally defined by their relationship with Pokémon rather than by their race, sex, etc. I saw Shauna in Gen VI as evidence of this, as she seemed obviously Arabic to me, yet no one ever commented on it despite the fact that in our world, Arabs in Europe tend to get a lot of shit over their ethnic background.
"Passing" as a concept is one that specifically exists in our world, as it is about members of an oppressed populace disguising themselves as the mainstream population. If Spark were a "white-passing Arab" that would imply that he has some reason to be afraid if his ethnic background were discovered and made public.
These people claim to be about celebrating diversity, yet they seem to project the racist history of this world into one where no equivalent has ever been even implied to exist.
