What kind of person would be fine with the following....

[Igel]

27. Your poll doesn't match the set up.

Somebody into multiculturalism would welcome them.

A colorblind person would be okay with them. I don't think a colorblind person would "welcome" them necessarily because that's suddenly seeing colors in a way that contradicts being colorblind.

Having a Haitian Spiderman would be like having a Nahuatl Anansi or a Luo Loki. Each is too grounded in where he's from and to repeat him would be fawningly derivative or you'd have to do a lot of violence to his character. It's easy to confuse their defining traits as skin color when it's so much more. (I found the Avenger's "Thor" and his Loki to be offensive. Note that their skin color stayed the same. But their personalities, backgrounds ... mockery. At least Gaiman did a bit more justice to Anansi in "American Gods." Oh. Gaiman's a very talented writer.)

I want to be appreciated and received validation at work because of my job performance; in the neighborhood, because of how I keep up my yard and relate to neighbors. And to a large extent I seek to get past some of my past. Some bits are useful; some aren't. Depends on context. My interpretations and attitudes worked then and there; but they were ill-suited to college and I hadn't learned to chuck them--so college was hard. My context changed, I couldn't see it, and I failed to adapt in time. Pity. Adapted later. Am still adapting. Texas isn't Oregon, high school isn't grad school.

My past has shaped me but I can't let it define me or limit me any more than I want my thyroid disease or the car I had in high school to define me or limit me or the fact that I used to wear Pumas, then wore Nikes, now wear New Balance says something really important about me now.