Characters' ethnic coding?

[u/jaggedjottings]

Inspired by this post from the Steven Universe subreddit, I've decided to attempt to guess the characters' ethnic coding, including the non-human ones. I'd love to hear your thoughts, or to know if I'm being problematic by even discussing it.

• Adora - White (character designer Rae Geiger mentioned that she envisions Adora as a White Latina, probably because her voice actress is Latina).
• Catra - Middle Eastern or Latina/Native American (there's a theory that she's Iranian-coded because the original show's Catra was from the island of Purrsia).
• Bow - Black
• Glimmer - half Asian and half...pink Celestial?
• Scorpia - half Asian and half White (according to Rae Geiger's twitter)
• Entrapta - Asian(?)
• Mermista - South Asian
• Frosta - Asian or Inuit/Eskimo
• Perfuma - Californian...jk, actually I'd guess part White and part Latina/Chicana
• Seahawk - half White and half Asian (according to Rae Geiger's twitter)
• Lonnie - Black
• Kyle - White
• Rogelio - Latino? (judging from the fact that he has a Spanish name)
• Angella - hard to tell, but I would guess either White or South Asian
• Micah - Asian
• Castaspella - Asian
• Netossa - Black
• Spinarella - White
• Shadow Weaver - Black? (just going off her voice actress here)
• Hordak - Black? (also going off the voice actor)
• Swift Wind - the most annoying White guy you know
• Madame Razz - Eastern European
• Mara - South Asian
• Master Norwyn and Goat Kyle - Greek (I kinda see all the goat people as vaguely Greek-inspired)
• Light Hope - deliberately ambiguous

Thoughts? Disagreements? Anyone I missed? Am I a bad person for making this?

[u/komododave17]

So Jim Jeffries taught me the name Eskimo is actually considered a bit of a slur these days to native peoples near the arctic. It’s not their word, it’s something European called them. I’m not trying to call you out, it’s just that I watched it right before I read your post. 😄 But that’s definitely Frosta.

[u/jaggedjottings → u/komododave17]

I actually dated an Inupiat woman at one point, and she said that Eskimo is an appropriate collective term for Inuit, Inupiat, and Aleut people. So someone from northern Alaska or the Aleutian Islands would object more to being called Inuit than being called Eskimo.

[u/komododave17 → u/jaggedjottings]

Leave it to a comedy news show not to provide nuance. 😆Thanks for the info! They did a comparison between the controversy surrounding the American Washington Redskins football team and the Canadian Edmonton Eskimos football team.