Why are all the nutcrackers Caucasian?

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Sorry this is in the wrong spot, I couldn’t find the Christmas thread.
I’m wanting to buy nutcrackers of colour for my Christmas tree and I can’t find them anywhere. Is there a legitimate reason why no one makes them?
And I’m sorry if I’ve used the wrong wording.
My niece and nephew are mixed race and I would like my tree to have some diversity (I have a bit of a nutcracker theme going on).

@MrsMiaWallis

But he's a fictional character from an actual ballet! He's a Caucasian nutcracker.

Better tell all those dancers that they need to be white to be in The Nutcracker 🙄

All the people trying desperately to see racism where there isn't any

You must be fun to live with.

@PolkadotsAndMoonbeams - thank you, will take a look 👍

But yes in reality, there were not many black people in Roman Britain

I don't think uou can know that. We know the roman empire surrounded the Mediterranean and so there were Africans and Europeans in the Empire. We know slaves taken from new conquests to Rome could rise up the ranks and we know soldiers were transported all over the empire. There is written evidence of at least one entirely African regiment in northern England and we know there were at least two Roman Emperors who were what we'd now call black. There's no evidence that the Romans were racist in the way we are now. I'd assume from that that a significant proportion of Roman soldiers in Britain were from Africa. They will have intermarried and the dark skin disappeared over the generations. Then the slave trade started in the early 17th century and we know there were thousands of black Londoners in the Georgian period.

Your granny's anecdote means nothing, I am middle aged but grew up in the back of beyond so didn't see anyone black in real life until I went to London as a teenager. Doesn't mean there were no black people in the UK in the 80s.

Germany had African colonies in the 19th century, there were thousands of black people in Africa (including many soldiers). A black nutcracker is not anomalous.

I have a Jack Skellington nutcracker so technically he isn’t any colour as he’s a skeleton