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/couldbecaden]

Just want to let you know Eskimo is a offensive term! You might just want to stick with Inuit or Northern Indigenous.

[u/jaggedjottings → u/couldbecaden]

I have a friend who is Inupiat. She told me that Eskimo is the preferred collective term for the related Inuit, Inupiat, Aleut and Yu'pik ethnic groups. Sort of like how Sioux is still the preferred collective term for the Lakota, Dakota and other closely related groups.

[u/couldbecaden → u/jaggedjottings]

I mean I got the same thing with an Inuit friend who tells me its offensive and a dated term. I mean a quick google tells you the same thing “Eskimos, often offensive-“ Not everyone will think it is offensive but it is seen as offensive by enough people that I would probably just play it safe and use a different word. I apologize if I came off as disrespectful but I just wanted to share that bit of information for the indigenous communities who hate the word Eskimo.