User blog comment:Skeith9/Heroic Spirits Speculation/@comment-67.173.29.50-20140706034834/@comment-24762556-20140706052947

Not to mention as a country whose vast majority still struggles to speak english even when it's a required subject in all schools, the Japanese don't have the best idea how modern foreigners look, act, or how their culture actually works that's why foreigner characters in animes and mangas are more often than not heavily stereotyped. (Not being racist, I'm half Japanese myself.)

P.S. Skeith, what the hell do you mean people can tell ethnicity in mangas by hair color? I think you know this but plenty of unrealistic(blue, pink, green, purple) hair colored character exists in Japanese medias and in mangas(monochromatic medium), they're indistinguishable. You probably won't be able to tell if a manga character has brown, red or green hair(in non-colored images) since they're shaded the same way.

Skin color doesn't help much either since Japanese manga artists also tend to give Okinawans tanned skin, which would basically make them indistinguishable from otherwise non-stereotyped Hispanic, Indian, Middle Eastern, and in some cases Africans.