Board Thread:Manga/@comment-26056057-20160509020829/@comment-26932251-20160519062411

TheDoctorX wrote: the otherwize homogenous population--Where are the black people? AH! Now you're touching on an issue that Isayama has only hinted at and most fans of Attack On Titan never talk about. What's the deal with the fact that the wall people are almost entirely European descended and more specifically central and Eastern-European in apparent descent and culture as reflected in the names (Erwin Smith, Jean Kirstein, Marlo Freudenberg, etc.)?

The superficial explanation would be that they are simply the people where the walls were built in time but Reiner's 'accursed race' comment gives a totally different spin on it. I think basically these are members of European ethnicities who were historically guilty of terrible crimes (think the holocaust) and so they have been imprisoned for eternity.

I mean, we still don't know for 100% certain where the dumbs dumbs come from but notice that all of the dumb dumbs are also European-ish in appearance? We don't see any mid-tone skin or dark skin on any dumb dumbs like, ever. Something tells me that Isayama's explanation has to do with the fact that this is all some kind of elaborate punishment and containment of European ethnicities, which I find to be kind of a hilarious prospect.

All I'm gonna say is, at this point, I'm not going to believe that the world of Attack On Titan is a 'post-apocalyptic' world until the story itself proves it. Right now the going line that all of humanity was wiped out except for the wall people has already been proven wrong by the mere existence of the homelanders and the homeland. The audience as of yet hasn't been given the ability to 'independently verify' that all the rest of humanity has been exterminated because we've only seen a very small slice of the planet, that we can't even independently verify is Earth because we thus far haven't even seen a single truly Earthly landmark. We haven't even seen the fucking ocean.