Timeline for Were any Star Wars aliens based on national stereotypes?
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| Aug 13, 2018 at 22:54 | comment | added | user2752467 | @Adamant perhaps, but a big part of it is that stereotypes aren't reality, and there are many negative stereotypes that are associated with multiple disparate groups. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 14:52 | comment | added | Adamant | I guess the voice actor did a truly atrocious job of making him sound Italian, if people can think he sounds like three other groups. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 14:49 | comment | added | C. Helling | @Adamant "Interesting. A lot of people think it sounds more like Yiddish" I distinctly remember hearing Watto speak Finnish. I'm obviously biased as I know Finnish but not Yiddish, but the two sound nothing alike to me. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 12:52 | comment | added | TakeWithFood | Well, it seems not it's Italian officially, which is cool! I am open to being corrected, but I certainly hadn't heard the "shady jew slaver" angle before. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 12:50 | comment | added | Adamant | Interesting. A lot of people think it sounds more like Yiddish. Too many elements of Watto's characterization are stereotypically Jewish, I think, but it's not impossible that there are some Romani stereotypes mixed up there. But the only stereotype that seems to fit is the stereotype of Romani stealing children, which fits poorly with Watto owning Anakin but Shmi still caring for him, and which I believe is much less familiar in the US than in Europe. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 12:45 | comment | added | TakeWithFood | @all looking for a basis for my claim: See the bottom of this page for a full list starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_Basic_Standard. Actually just having checked - Toydarian was removed. It was there a long while ago when I saw this. I'm Romanian and that's the only reason it stood out to me and why I remember. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 12:43 | comment | added | Adamant | Can you elaborate on your first point? Watto's characterization fits fairly poorly with stereotypes of Romani as generally held in the US. | |
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| Aug 13, 2018 at 12:40 | history | answered | TakeWithFood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |