Link - https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1649278580013277184

        • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It’s not like those features are even particularly Russian.

          Looks like it's caliper time on hexbear.

            • silent_water [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              I was going to criticize them for making C look kind of white but the rest look fairly typical to me. I don't think blue eyes and blonde hair alone is enough to categorize a depiction as 'aryan'. the Indian woman somehow looks like my aunt and sister (when the former was younger), which is tough to do if you're starting from a racist place. I think it's done in good faith.

                • silent_water [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  fash depictions of aryans generally make them look germanic. this is too low fidelity to gauge whether they've made the attempt to do that or not.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          i mean slavic countries have similar physical characteristics as the rest of northern europe. russia itself is very diverse, has many people that look east asian and central asian, has a region that is nearly all redheaded gingers (czechia has some towns like this too), blondes, etc.

          • Haterade
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            1 year ago

            deleted by creator

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I think they just wanted 1 blonde woman and that was the only chance they had for it

          There are a lot of uh, Scandinavian looking Russians ever since the Western part of the country was conquered by vikings. That was pretty long ago though

        • Abraxiel
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          2 years ago

          Draws a blonde woman
          "Nazi shit"

      • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The simple answer is "no"

        Non-aryan people's existed in India before the Aryans and their culture and lineage contributes to "Indianess". Linguistically, India has many influences. In the south, non-Indo-Aryan languages are predominant.

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This isn't exactly gratuitous, it's literally just smiling women in well-fitting clothes.

    • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      neither is depicting Russia as an Aryan

      It's not like blond hair vanishes when you cross over the border from Finland

            • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              I understand that it's probably not your intention, but getting this worked up over representing a median appearance of an entire nation is kinda :sus-deep:. Is there even a median appearance for Russians? What would be a more appropriate appearance in your mind, and why that one and not any other random example? The nation has like a hundred ethnic groups. What is even the point of you being upset about this?