"white" is usually called "caucasian". just saying
Quite oddly. Calling your average white Briton ‘Caucasian’ is like calling a Mexican ‘Canadian’ because their ancestors passed through Canada to reach Mexico.
I guess the misnomer can't be helped at this point, though. The distinctions are pretty useless, anyway.
The female wizard is definately Asian, yes. Chinese I think?
Absolutely. If, for some reason, the name Xiansai isn't enough to give it away as Chinese-inspired, the features of both the male and female wizards are more common in China than anywhere else. Do some Google image searches with the face filter using terms like ‘Chinese male model’ and ‘Chinese female model’ to meet our wizards.
I can understand why some people think otherwise, though. As with Europe, there is a multitude of distinct ethnicities amongst the nations of what we refer to as Asia, and it would be unusual for any one person to be familiar with the features of them all.
Using an easy European example, in England alone you've got at least 13 morphologically distinct (though slowly blurred, so to speak, over the last thousand years or twelve) groups derived from branches caused by events in the Paleolithic, and even that is painting with a very broad brush. You can drill down a lot more than this if you're really meticulous. Or a geneticist. Asia's no different. Tibetan facial morphology is very different from Taiwanese facial morphology....
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Quite oddly. Calling your average white Briton ‘Caucasian’ is like calling a Mexican ‘Canadian’ because their ancestors passed through Canada to reach Mexico.
I guess the misnomer can't be helped at this point, though. The distinctions are pretty useless, anyway.
Absolutely. If, for some reason, the name Xiansai isn't enough to give it away as Chinese-inspired, the features of both the male and female wizards are more common in China than anywhere else. Do some Google image searches with the face filter using terms like ‘Chinese male model’ and ‘Chinese female model’ to meet our wizards.
I can understand why some people think otherwise, though. As with Europe, there is a multitude of distinct ethnicities amongst the nations of what we refer to as Asia, and it would be unusual for any one person to be familiar with the features of them all.
Using an easy European example, in England alone you've got at least 13 morphologically distinct (though slowly blurred, so to speak, over the last thousand years or twelve) groups derived from branches caused by events in the Paleolithic, and even that is painting with a very broad brush. You can drill down a lot more than this if you're really meticulous. Or a geneticist. Asia's no different. Tibetan facial morphology is very different from Taiwanese facial morphology....
‘I'M NOT LEAVING UNTIL WE ALL HAVE AIDS!’—The importance of calling them ‘mercenaries.’