MontanaHatchet on 25 August 2009
| highwaystar101 said: Actually on a side note, I've never understood why Jesus is portrayed as a white guy in the west. I mean when you consider his given ethnicity and nationality the colour of his skin would probably not be white. It's just always puzzled me to how this came about, I mean I think everyone accepts that he is not white, but he is portrayed that way. |
Jesus is portrayed as white because that was what people wanted to see him as. As Christianity spread to Europe, nobody in Europe wanted to believe that Jesus looked like their arch enemies (the Arabians). As such, they changed his image to something more fitting to European culture. He stills looks eccentric (long hair and beard) to keep him distinctive, but he was still made to be white and brown-haired. Most people in the west still view him like that because it's been his portrayal for a long time, and most shows (The Simpsons, Family Guy) find the depiction to have far more comedic effect. It's not going away anytime soon.
