[MR] Asian Personas

[David Chessler]

------ Original Message ------
Received: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:19:08 AM EDT
From: M'lady Foxy <angellfoxx at yahoo.com>
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [MR] Asian Personas

> We were not there to know there were not English longbowman that were from
African-american decent...

We can be pretty sure there were no African-Americans. There may have been
African-Portugese, African-Dutch, African-English, African-Moroccan, or even
African longbowmen, but no African Americans.

SCA is historically eurocentric, so if you want a non-European persona you
have to invent a story as to why you are in Europe (or maybe not). And if you
select a persona that does not correspond closely with your mundane ethnicity,
well, I have noticed that Irish persona are disproportionately popular, while
eastern European persona are dispropotionately unpopular (even though parts of
Yugoslavia were parts of Venice well into our primary periods).

>I would think that if you were defending home and country that all hands
would be put into service defending no matter what background is.Using the
civil war as an example you had the buffalo soliders that raised arms to
defend.But this isn't a racial issue yet a point that you are free to explore
cultures and live them as well.If we didn't then how would we learn???
> 
> Although several African-American regiments were raised during the Civil War
to fight alongside the Union Army (including the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry and the many United States Colored Troops Regiments), the "Buffalo
Soldiers" were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black
regiments in the regular U.S. Army.
> 
> On September 6, 2005, Mark Matthews, who was the oldest living Buffalo
Soldier, died at the age of 111. He was buried at Arlington National
Cemetery.[4]
> 
> --- On Mon, 9/21/09, sigrune at aol.com <sigrune at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: sigrune at aol.com <sigrune at aol.com>
> > Subject: Re: [MR] Asian Personas
> > To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> > Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 8:22 AM
> > 
> > Yeah, it is almost as bad as the norse personas that wear
> > glasses, drink beer out of cans and wear converse footwear.
> > 
> > We gonna start critisizing people that their race does not
> > fit the culture they are portraying now?
> > You know, I never have heard of someone critisizing my
> > friend James (of african-american ancestry) from portraying
> > an English longbowman form the hundred years war... 
> > Should I call him up and tell him people are disturbed by
> > that?
> > 
> > Get a grip people, I though we were above racisim.
> > 
> > -Takeda (a white guy protraying a samurai)
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: M'lady Foxy <angellfoxx at yahoo.com>
> > Sent: Thu, Sep 17, 2009 9:07 pm
> > Subject: Re: [MR] Asian Personas
> > 
> > 
> > I personally like the Asian personnia with blonde hair blue
> > eyes myself...though
> > just goes to show you can be anyone you want to be in the
> > SCA...
> > 
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