melanie wrote: "Ethnic merely means characters of different ethnicities. Your own ethnicity is still ethnic." Fine; then all characters are ethnic and should be labelled as such. xoconostle wrote: "to accuse either the content provider or the store itself of "racism" in this case is just wrong" No it isn't. It is a very correct use of the word "racism", which means the (discredited) theory that humankind is divided into races. All these words "race" and "ethnic" and "ethnicity" are loaded terms. There is only one race - the human race.