The main Sky person character, Clarke, is even caked with darker skin when she symbolically joins the Grounders. The grounder aesthetic revolves around 'exotic ' cultures to portray the Grounders as different and strange. This encourages the cultural hegemony, the Sky people are the ones with science and medicine, the narrative of the entire show revolves around them settling into a new place, and fighting off those that already live there - some of the Sky People were were even imprisoned for wanting to leave. The grounder culture is vilified and othered in an attempt to contrast them with the sky people. it is a violent act to use elements of another 's culture as background noise while framing them in a inhumane light. Dreadlocks, bindis, Moari facial tattoos are all costumes that are being used to set the Grounders up as the other. This othering is a form of orientalism that commodifies a culture. The homogenizing of different cultures, mostly native and black, aspects create the image of a exotifying and strange
The main Sky person character, Clarke, is even caked with darker skin when she symbolically joins the Grounders. The grounder aesthetic revolves around 'exotic ' cultures to portray the Grounders as different and strange. This encourages the cultural hegemony, the Sky people are the ones with science and medicine, the narrative of the entire show revolves around them settling into a new place, and fighting off those that already live there - some of the Sky People were were even imprisoned for wanting to leave. The grounder culture is vilified and othered in an attempt to contrast them with the sky people. it is a violent act to use elements of another 's culture as background noise while framing them in a inhumane light. Dreadlocks, bindis, Moari facial tattoos are all costumes that are being used to set the Grounders up as the other. This othering is a form of orientalism that commodifies a culture. The homogenizing of different cultures, mostly native and black, aspects create the image of a exotifying and strange