Talk:Mary Lacroix/@comment-2603:900A:1C15:A000:9943:935:425A:1FC4-20200105192714/@comment-4934571-20200108160453

I'll reply here although you and the actual contributor to this page have different IP addresses. I as a Central European person of really boring origin and of Caucasian appearance slightly fear to dig deeper into this issue in the contemporary world of political correctness. I prefer leaving these categories to other users because I am never sure if the character's hair is blond, fair or light brown. I rarely try to guess the eye colour too. To describe the skin colour we generally use the neutral words Fair or Pale.

Since we had no characters of Mary's appearance in the original books, I was not sure how we should decribe them. African Canadian? Black? Black Canadian? (The same with Ka'kwet and the other characters from Season 3). Or just ignore their appearance? Right now, we don't have this information on Mary's page nor on pages of other characters (Bash, Delphine, Elijah, Jocelyn, Constance, Hazel). Still, we fill out these categories in the infobox. It seems to me that Mary's hair is black and her eyes are dark. Regarding her skin colour... I honestly do not know and we probably should come up with a universal solution. On Harry Potter Wiki they refer to their respective characters as Black (Bem), Brown (Dean Thomas) or Dark (Lee Jordan).

Honestly, I would like to avoid a situation of fighting over particular skin tones - if they make the character still Brown or Black already. From my own point of view... if someone calls me white, it doesn't mean that my skin is as white as snow. Yet I understand it might be offending to some people if they are called black but they prefer some other term.