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Skin color choice of good/evil fantasy characters does not provide enough of a cue for me that the author is racist. There has to be additional data points like speech pattern or descriptions of the homeland of the character for me to tie them to real world stereotypes.

The Asian-stereotyped (Japanese?) trade syndicate characters from Star Wars episode 1 seemed especially racist portrayals to me.

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You know, I had never noticed how the Neimodians in Episode 1 spoke in that Asian-stereotyped speech pattern before, but now I can't unhear it when I think of their scenes from that movie. Seems obvious in retrospect.

I was so excited to see Book I before it came out and I remember distinctly that (to me, obvious) speech pattern being the first real, big disappointment. Of many, sadly.

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