Here's to another thread that branched off another one. Haha.
I'm hoping that this question can be resolved or discussed in order to help with an issue I'm having. In my WIP, it is based around Irish mythology. I have been struggling to add ethnic diversity in where people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ have already found their place in my story. I think I have gotten part of it figured out where I am wanting to make one of the four main characters, a girl, of mixed race. I haven't decided which yet, but I am wanting to do so. However, she has originally been a white girl. The only ethnically diverse character in my story thus far is my MC's best friend who we only see in three to four chapters but has a bigger role to play in the series.
However, my question I bring to the table is, since this is Irish mythology and I am bringing in someone of mixed race (half white, half either Indian or African, unsure as of this point), would that be considered cultural erasure if I focus more on her Irish heritage rather than her Indian or African heritage if that is not what the plot calls for? I'm thinking along the lines of Percy Jackson and how Rick Riordan still included diversity in spite of his stories being central around Greek/Roman/Norse myth.
Thoughts?
I'm hoping that this question can be resolved or discussed in order to help with an issue I'm having. In my WIP, it is based around Irish mythology. I have been struggling to add ethnic diversity in where people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ have already found their place in my story. I think I have gotten part of it figured out where I am wanting to make one of the four main characters, a girl, of mixed race. I haven't decided which yet, but I am wanting to do so. However, she has originally been a white girl. The only ethnically diverse character in my story thus far is my MC's best friend who we only see in three to four chapters but has a bigger role to play in the series.
However, my question I bring to the table is, since this is Irish mythology and I am bringing in someone of mixed race (half white, half either Indian or African, unsure as of this point), would that be considered cultural erasure if I focus more on her Irish heritage rather than her Indian or African heritage if that is not what the plot calls for? I'm thinking along the lines of Percy Jackson and how Rick Riordan still included diversity in spite of his stories being central around Greek/Roman/Norse myth.
Thoughts?
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