{"id":266495,"date":"2021-06-04T05:52:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T02:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-nuances-of-privilege-and-discrimination-in-86-eighty-six\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T05:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T02:52:14","slug":"the-nuances-of-privilege-and-discrimination-in-86-eighty-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-nuances-of-privilege-and-discrimination-in-86-eighty-six\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Nuances of Privilege and Discrimination in 86: EIGHTY-SIX"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The Nuances of Privilege and Discrimination in 86: EIGHTY-SIX<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The exploration of discrimination and privilege as a theme<\/a> and conflict isn\u2019t new to stories, regardless of their forms and where they originate. Anime<\/a> is no exception to that, but it has also been criticized in the past for its simplistic take. Saviors are commonly found in privileged groups, and those who are discriminatory are often portrayed as psychotic, evil, and basically the worst scum in existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

86: Eighty-Six<\/span><\/i>, however, takes one of the most nuanced dives into how privilege and discrimination form their society that I have ever seen, despite starting relatively black and white. In this fantasy world, \u201cAlbas,\u201d silver-haired and silver-eyed people, are the privileged. They live in a technologically advanced city with a clean whiteness often associated with the rich. The others are simply dubbed as \u201c86\u201d \u2014 people with a variety of hair color, eye color, and skin tones that were forced into camps outside, not recognized as human citizens, and are drafted into units to fight battles against a relentless AI enemy army while all Alba command leaders remain safe within city limits and control their units through a computer screen. The Albas are bad, the 86 are good, perfect minorities, and Lena, the Alba protagonist, is the privileged savior.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Except it isn\u2019t as simple as that at all. The anime\u2019s takes on Lena, on the 86 residents, and on the Albas as a whole has continuously shown just how multifaceted privilege and discrimination are when it has become integrated into society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lena<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Lena checks off all the marks of the \u201cwhite savior\u201d trope. She grows up privileged as an Alba, comes from a high-ranking family, is considered family by other high-ranking officials, and is notoriously righteous. She lectures other Albas for talking bad about the 86, and she constantly treats her 86 underlings with kindness through her communications. She mourns when one dies, and she cries as if she\u2019s one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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