I guess I'm a bit lucky in that respect--I'm white, and I grew up in (and still live in) a racist part of the country, but I wasn't cloistered in Whitetown and my parents raised me to see people, not race. Even still, I'm likewise surprised at the diversity of races that keep popping up in my characters. In fact, I think currently most of my white characters are secondary characters.
Okay, I take that back, in one fanfic I have a lot of white characters, but I'm working with canon restraints in that story. Outside of those restraints, my tendency to put all sorts of races in comes right back.
I guess I just happen to like variety in my characters. 8| Kinda disgusting to see things like the Hunger Games remarks pop up.
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Date: 2012-04-01 03:40 pm (UTC)Okay, I take that back, in one fanfic I have a lot of white characters, but I'm working with canon restraints in that story. Outside of those restraints, my tendency to put all sorts of races in comes right back.
I guess I just happen to like variety in my characters. 8| Kinda disgusting to see things like the Hunger Games remarks pop up.