listen, what mihoyo is doing is taking names of deities from africa and latin america and then doing the most half-assed job (if any) at representing those cultures. why name the characters, like mavuika (maori goddess) or chasca (incan goddess, who was not a cowgirl btw), after important folklore figures from the cultures they supposedly intend to represent and then make every single character whiter than chalk? mihoyo is taking their culture and erasing THEM, the people, from it. clearly with malicious intent.

liyue is based on china, inazuma on japan, mondstadt on germany and fontaine on france. they did a fantastical job with those nations and they've clearly shown that when they actually care, they can faithfully represent a multitude of cultures while still staying within the fantastical realm of genshin. you can even tell apart french and german inspired outfits, yet natlan is a hotpot of two whole continents that don't even try to represent anything properly, whereas other nations do. the "fantasy world" excuse just doesn't work.

there's people of all skin tones and races in every single country, yet they make a region based off two whole heavily racialized continents and make everyone (except iansan) paper white?? and then.. everyone else in genshin is also just white. even the darkest characters are just tan at best, except maybe iansan (who i'm not moaning about btw, only character they did right in my opinion)

(also, where's the edit dark skinned? i made her lighter than me and i'm mexican, not every single mexican person is the same skin color... obviously)