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I dont give a shit. Im Scottish, Im almost never represented in Tv and movies by my nationality. But so what? What I look like and who are love, have fuck all to do with representing me. I dont want to see "ME". The only representation that matters is character. Who a person is, not what they are. What they are means nothing. You can black, and be any number of things. Being black means... nothing. Just like being white means nothing. Being black or white doing make you good or bad, or smart or dumb, or interesting or boring.
Not having to give a shit is a privilege you enjoy. You're trying to claim some sort of minority status when you're very heavily in the majority in your own country, and nobody elsewhere is complaining about how "that show didn't need to have a Scottish character in it, that's forced diversity". There's a ton of Scottish actors who get cast in roles outside Scotland without needing their Scottishness justified in the plot.
Come back when being Scottish makes you a hate target for major religious groups worldwide and then talk about how you don't care about representation.
And theres loads of black, gay and female actors who dont need to justify their casting either. So whats your point? The fact you have to shoe horn in nonsense to justify them being there, is your own bigotry. Not mine. And Im Scottish, thats 5 million people in the world, not counting the endless Americans who claim Scottish ancestry though their long, LONG dead relatives. We are a minority in the world, whether its one you want to recognise or not. My guess is that you would, if we a black people. But I think we both know, your racism only goes one way, right?
The only kind of representation that matters is character. Thats why Ben Sisko was a character. Because he wasnt just "the black captain". He was a fully rounded and complex character that showed the many facets of people human. If all you see in that character is the colour of his skin... Well, like I said. Thats your own bigotry.