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thisizmypornburner t1_it81uf1 wrote

Reply to comment by NefariousnessOne1859 in Why are black people inexistant in the fantasy/sci-fi genre by hater_first

Olive skin almost exclusively refers to a sort of European Mediterranean look... so yes, white

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Ealinguser t1_it8w6mh wrote

or Latino

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thisizmypornburner t1_it8yrju wrote

Descendents of white Mediterranean Europeans would also have olive skin yes

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Ealinguser t1_itco8jl wrote

Merely pointing out that in the US, the Latin look is commonly considered not to be white, unlike in Europe. And of course many people of mixed race have olive skin, and are definitely not considered white there either.

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