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BattleMaster
Since: Feb, 2015
17th Aug, 2019 09:54:19 PM
No, Token Minority is a character who's a member of a minority added to a cast that largely not made up of characters who are in minorities. What type of minority they are is not relevant for the trope, just that they add diversity.
Edited by BattleMaster
I'm trying to look for a trope where a story depicts someone who is from a country/ethnicity/nationality/race that usually isn't represented in media? Would this be Token Minority? Although some of the examples I had in mind may not really count "minorities" as most people would consider them in the West.
Examples:
- Frozen: Kristoff is Sami, which the general American/Canadian audience doesn't know of.
- Elena of Avalor: A show made in the U.S. and Canada, Season 3 features a kingdom of Jewish Latinos. Also, another kingdom seems to be based on Argentina.
- The Japanese Visual Novel Fate/hollow ataraxia introduces Luviagelita Edelfelt, who is Finnish. However, she might as well be from any other non-English European country since it mainly just serves the purpose of her being exotic to the Japanese audience since she comes from a lesser known European country (as opposed to Russia, Germany, England, France, etc.) and nothing specific about her Finnish background is brought up. The Tohsaka family also has some Finnish blood since an Edelfelt married into their family around the 1940's.
- Young Justice does its best to represent people from various backgrounds and identities:
- Artemis and Jade/Cheshire are half Vietnamese and half French, their mother is Vietnamese, Jade/Cheshire's daughter Lian is a quarter Vietnamese and three-quarters white.
- Ed (El Dorado) and his parents are Argentinian.
Edited by CommanderVisor