#NONE of the bengali women ik act like courtney at all. | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

semiconducting · 9 months

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my 2 cents that no one asked for but sometimes i see ethnicity hcs for the td characters and i notice that a lot of ppl hc courtney as mixed latina and asian of some variety (usually south asian, somehow specifically bengali which piqued my interest...as a bengali) but i remember that it was around tdas or something that fresh posted these like. bios or some shit and they like Forgot that courtney was previously stated to be latina n listed her as asian. or maybe it was a tweet from tom mcgillis or smth i don't remember exactly but! i get now these days ppl are like oh just make her Mixed. All Canon! and if i were to have gotten into total drama post-tdas i probably would say the same HOWEVER. AS A SOUTH ASIAN i dont like south asian courtney she's fully latina to me and that's how i've always seen her i can't change it

#i just feel like the cultural pressures on her are a little different if she were latina vs south asian #& i find it more compelling if she's latina idk. like i love her there are components to her personality that i relate to a lot #but honestly she'd be veryyyyyy far removed from the culture if she's sposed to be bengali for example.#NONE of the bengali women ik act like courtney at all.#i say this AS a bengali who goes to a college w an unusually large bengali population specifically #& also i live in an area w/a high latino population and i did in high school too #i think if ur gonna bother w hc'ing a character of a certain nationality u should like. do it with thought right like #their relationship with their culture etc ESP if they're in a country like canada or the us #and courtney at the start of the show is obv a very repressed rule follower...#she learns to let go later both to have fun w duncan in tdi but also to be angry and scrappy in tda #my mom and i are the only bengalis i know who openly express that kind of rage LMAO #and my mom is like. a Very rebellious bengali woman she's prudish by american standards but she heavilyyyyyy rejects her heritage #point is. courtney would be different if she were desi i think.#if she's only latina you don't have to remove her from having or participating in cultural values or traditions #which i think is somewhat in line with her character. she's not Uber traditional but i can't see her as deliberately rejecting all of it #anyways. this was much longer than i meant for it to be #i just have so many thoughts #point is i hc courtney to be puerto rican <3 #i have also seen venezuelan hcs and i like that too #shut up mega #LMAO

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