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05-16-2009, 02:31 PM
zuludelta
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oliverbox
Also, Zuludelta, I want to tell you how much I've enjoyed seeing your revamp of the characters. I know it's a labor of love, and you've done a great job. I think a lot of us envision our Joeverse that way, and you've given us visual aides for our imaginations. Thank you. You do excellent work, my friend.
Thanks a lot. Really appreciate the sentiment.
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Master Thespian
What's more curious is the fact that in the original run, there are only two Joes who are hispanic (Zap and Shipwreck). I thought this was the weird thing about changing Ripcord to a black guy. There are already plenty of black guys in GI Joe already (coming from a black man, so no one get their panties bunched). I don't know about zulu, but when he gets done with this project, I'm going to convert a lot of the 87-90 characters into hispanics to flesh that part of the team out.
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Troynos
I never thought of Shipwreck as Hispanic either. Sure, has an hispanic name, but he was never portrayed as such (especially in the cartoon).
Law was portrayed as hispanic in the cartoon weirdly enough.
Yeah, that is sort of weird. The GI Joe team's make-up isn't too representative of actual armed forces demographics. But hey, it's a toy line first, so I can't really complain. And maybe it was different in the 1980s when the bulk of the toys were being designed, but the ethnic/cultural make-up of the current US Armed Forces, as far as I know, skews heavily towards "visible" minorities, more so than the general population.
Almost 40% of all Armed Forces enlisted personnel are census-classified as coming from a minority group
(which includes Hispanic-Americans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Pacific Islander-Americans, among others). Compare that with the general US population which is slightly less heterogeneous, with about 30% demographically classified as belonging to a minority group.
And here's some anecdotal evidence to go with the numbers. Slightly less than half of my uncle's US Navy boot camp class back in 1987 was comprised of minorities. Of that number, about half of them were Hispanic-American, a third were black/African-American, and the rest were Asian-American (with a disproportionate number of them being of Filipino descent).
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