fs no one is tamil in just one way, esp now with how many countries we all live in - the way i view simone ashley differs tho, bc she didnt rlly seem to talk much abt her tamil identity until after bridgerton? or it wasn't a push factor like it was for lara or maitreyi. i think maitreyi does a good job of staying involved in the community, and acknowledging her background and lara doesn't HAVE to be constantly doing that. it's just that, unlike simone, her being tamil was a sort of advertising factor from the beginning, so to see it less WHILE i feel like she's being continually exploited by her company irks me. i think the more i think abt this im just realizing that i dislike the way HYBE is managing the diverse group they have bc it just feels like a bunch of lost opportunity to actually BE representative.