East vs West – and here comes the South from the top rope!
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So, about April 2021 I had an irk. This was something that chaps my hide and I just wanted to end it once and for all, “How is it that we're not getting much representation from southern cultures?”
Now anyone reading my “feminism for money” short might be going at me, “How come you're trying to force this down people's thoughts” and I'm not. I'm not and this is the point of me as the South African as, a black person, as somebody who enjoys seeing dark skin; I want to put more dark skinned characters into fiction works. I initially started off writing 1 manga and the grayscale effort of it ruined it so here you are finding me on web novels as well as in future I would be taking this content onto Webtoonz in a colorized work but I don't want to do that work; I'm gonna work with somebody, I'm really not gonna do that by myself honestly it's a pain after that I know what I'm talking about
And this is like dark skinned characters being in Tekken and Tekken makes sense because it's a global stage by that I mean the characters come from different nations anyone can speak their own language and then others can for the sake of this story hear what you're saying and speaking their own language and that's a perfect representation of South Africa as well as of if your game is going to say it's in the global world it must have sometimes ugly people but also people of darker skin and of different cultures
So just a backdrop on this story it was supposed to be a little story about a small microcosm really about 3 little girls the best dancers in the world from three different cultures one from the western world so be it ballet one from the eastern world so be it the fan dancing which was a certain thing that I was seeing in an anime one time and then finally from African or southern cultures our traditional dancing like for me it was gumboot dancing I did gumboot dancing in second grade for a play so something like that and what was supposed to happen here is the dancing that they each did was supposed to inspire a rivalry so I'm writing this when they're not toddlers but 1st grade students let's say that that age 3 little girls all being cued all loved for their dancing from their respective cultures and now who is the best dancer in the world or what is the best dance and that's this beginning of this so that was Part 1 hence you see the two page thing
Indaba, My Children
- Credo Amazulu Mutwa
