shut up
cool so while it’s true that at one point, slavics outnumbered ethnic kazakhs, by the time kazakhstan earned independence, russians left kazakhstan in droves due to perceived inequality and lack of economic opportunities over the next decade. by the start of the 21st century, the number of russians in kazakhstan dropped almost 30%, from 6.2 million to around 4.4 million. those who chose to stay in the country either lacked the resources to leave or truly wanted to stay; currently, kazakhs make up 65.5% of the population while uzbeks, uygurs, tatars, and others make up the remaining minority. so actually, if you want to talk about probability and “good chance”, he’s most likely asian. also if you have enough basic deduction skills to look at how he’s drawn, he’s asian.
also hi, i’m an international relations minor with a focus on central asia and wrote a 10 page research paper on ethnic composition and tensions within kazakhstan so if this anon would like to step into my inbox i’d love to talk
Didnt the creators literally tweet that otabek is drawn to look Asian
In one of the PASH interviews Kubo said he’s made to have “features like a Mongolian person” also they said they modeled him after Denis Ten a million times but naw y’all gotta have white otabek altin for some reason … …
He is literally modeled after Denis Ten, who has very OBVIOUS South Korean heritage. Stop trying to white wash Otabek just because you are afraid of a character being something other than Caucasian.
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