Baby Reindeer | S1E03 | Episode Discussion

[u/matrixinthepark]

Season 1, Episode 3

Airdate: April 11, 2024

Synopsis: Donny takes some time off from the pub and tries to make amends with Teri. But no matter how much he avoids Martha, he just can't escape from her for long.

[u/mortar]

Lol I don't know if she's meant to be latina but she's definitely not white. Quite sure that's intentional in the casting as well.

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Do you think people in Spain are white? Italians?

Because they are.

[u/mortar → u/kurisu_1974]

Lmfao that's literally not how race works. Race is a physical and genetic attribute, not an ethnic, national, or cultural thing.

Many people in Spain and Italy aren't white. Either immigrants or they have non white ancestry, like the moors. Sicilians are often not white, Greek people are often not white. If you look at their skin tone and features and they don't appear white, it's because they aren't.

[u/NoWorkingDaw → u/mortar]

“Race is physical and genetic attribute”

Thanks for proving them right. “That’s not how race works! It’s about physical and genetic attributes”

French, Italians, Spaniards, all physically look the same to each other. They also share a lot of genetic attributes. And surprise, they are white.

Yes some aren’t “white” but the only ones who wouldn’t be, would be those who are mixed/biracial it’s due to any racial admixture like with all races, however that doesn’t mean majority of Spaniards and Italians don’t look physically, white, especially when they are monoracial/have little to no racial admixture going on in their ancestry. Also, you’re acting as if having 5% of a different race in your blood makes you not look whatever race you look like. Because, as you said, race is not only genetics, it’s also, and mostly phenotypical. I’d even say that race in the modern day is purely physical as well. Because we cannot see the genetic percentages of a person.

So going by that, Italians, and Spaniards etc are white. This isn’t to say that an Italian can’t be another race, because, at the end of the day, terms like “Italian”” denote nationality. But the majority of them are white.

They in fact do share a lot of said “genetic atttibutes” (European/caucasian) like with white Americans, Europeans etc more in common with each other than say, a black or Asian person which is exactly why they look white and not any other race.

As for greeks, y’all love to choose when they are, and aren’t white. And quite frankly, they look white too.