crocordile:

Nothing can change the fact that Dany is intended as a white beauty, educated to regard Westeros as her homeland and Westerosi values as her own. This is a story about a white person who goes into a not-white not-western world with higher ideals and values than everyone she finds therein. No matter how many times a character from Essos accuses her of being a “barbarian”, that almost always comes off as highly ironic when followed by examples of creative cruelty on the behalf of those accusers. 

Is she though? Dany’s a Targaryen of the Blood of Old Valyria – and the Targaryens used that status to set themselves up as quasi-divine in Westeros. Hence why she’s taught Valyrian from such an early age, to hammer home the point that she’s descended from a higher, Essosi, civilization. 

She’s ethnically Essosi, her “white beauty” would be completely ordinary if you plonk her down on a random street in Lys, she has lived her whole life in Essos, she speaks Valyrian the common tongue of Essos – how is she not Essosi?