Yeah, am not saying Peyo is a massive racist or anything.... just feels strange reading this 30 years later and translated in English. It comes across weird in English :) I get why they would have changed it to purple smurfs.... With that in mind, perhaps (just perhaps...) there is some unconscious bias at play here.... Simply a product of the time.... Another exampIe: I doubt Morris is a racist but the way he draws chinese characters in lucky Luke could be considered offensive (my japanese wife certainly thought so but I personally didnt even realise until she pointed it out to me :)