Is little Mac a person of color?
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When I first saw his redesign I assumed he was now latino, but discussions before have mentioned that he might be Italian-American.
I guess the only conclusion we can take is that race is a construct.
I guess the only conclusion we can take is that race is a construct.
If you want main characters who are black, you've basically got Elma from xenoblade X and that's about it. They have numerous more create a characters that can be black or are even canonically black like the Octoling in Splatoon2:Octo expansion, and secondary characters in prominent positions like Dedue in Fire emblem three houses or Rodin in Bayonetta (which isn't really Nintendo, I suppose, which shows how I'm scraping the barrel...), And each xenoblade has at least one non-white party member...
As already said several times, it seems like Mac is based on a real life Italian American boxer.
As already said several times, it seems like Mac is based on a real life Italian American boxer.
No they didn't. Quit with this misinformation. There was ethnic discrimination but they were still considered White just at that time perceived as lower caste of Whiteness by WASPs. As an American historian said just view the history of racist laws and segregation. They did not apply to Italians, Irish, etc... and Italians and Irish marrying WASP's happened all the time and weren't breaking laws when interracial marriages were illegal.
Not really a major character but I randomly remembered this dude awhile back and considering the times it's even more of a shame they just dropped him for no reason at all. How funny would it be to have this guy show up masked in whatever new costume in each new Mario game?
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Il Piantissimo
Il Piantissimo is a human disguised as a Pianta who appears in Super Mario Sunshine. His name is possibly a portmanteau of "Pianta" and "-issimo", or specifically "pianissimo", a dynamic marking in sheet music. The word "il" is an Italian definite...
LMAO!! @ Clay Davis being Little Mac's trainer.
Little Mac is clearly Italian and his shorts are even shouting out the culture. Maybe there will be a Lil Mac in the future.
Little Mac is clearly Italian and his shorts are even shouting out the culture. Maybe there will be a Lil Mac in the future.
I'm grasping at straws to find any representation witn people of color in Nintendo does Mac count
You're actually trying to do the impossible, I see.
Please stop with this minority shit for Italian and Irish Americans. Yes they faced ethnic discrimination but did not legally face all the racist laws that applied to minorities.
he's Italian, but his character is a throwback to when Italian people in the U.S. weren't considered white. So he's an honorary minority.
I don't think merely acknowledging prejudice of Irish and Italian people in the U.S. is the same as equating their persecution to that faced by black and indigenous Americans.
I don't think merely acknowledging prejudice of Irish and Italian people in the U.S. is the same as equating their persecution to that faced by black and indigenous Americans.
I too headcanon him being Latino. I'll accept Latino-Italian as well. In conclusion, Nintendo needs to be better at diversity.
That is the cleanest picture of stallone I have ever seen in my life.
I thought that was the case since seeing the Wii Punch-Out version.
Also, "In conclusion, Nintendo needs to be better at diversity" can go at the end of every Nintendo-related post tbf.
Calling them minorities does and there's a history of people trying to conflate both of them to minimize what people of color have had to gone through in America.
Mexicans were considered white under anti-miscegenation laws of the United States. Do they not count as POC either?
He's not. Everything about Mac since the original punch out points to him being the stereotypical italian american underdog boxer (which makes sense considering the series is built on stereotypes). They even used Paulie Malignaggi, an actual italian american boxer, to play him in the ads for the Wii game. And if you want a cherry on top, look at what he was designed to look like in Super Punch Out.
If they actually meant for him to be hispanic, or latino, or anything else in anything outside of people's head canon, they would have made that much more explicit over the last 30 years.
As an Italian guy, Little Mac is our rep in the game. He is a white guy on the darker side of the spectrum, which is not an uncommon sight in this country. But a white guy nonetheless.
Now that I've contributed to the post, let me derail it for a second: the name Falco Lombardi implies that there are Italian people in the Starfox universe. And since earth is in a different galaxy, we're talking Space Italians here.
Now that I've contributed to the post, let me derail it for a second: the name Falco Lombardi implies that there are Italian people in the Starfox universe. And since earth is in a different galaxy, we're talking Space Italians here.
