AHC: Ottomans less politically incorrect regarding candidates for valide sultan

[Fenestella]

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valide_sultan#List_of_Valide_Sultans
the queen mothers of Ottoman sultans were overwhelmingly (if not exclusively) of European and Caucasian origins.

Didn't the Ottomans have control over parts of Asia and Africa?
Didn't they know that it's politically incorrect to prefer Europeans and Caucasians over other races?

 

[Commissar From Kiev]

What?

 

[PhilippeO]

that would be against Freedom of Expression and Association, isn't it ? Freedom to fall in love, express that love, and marry one you love is basic part of Freedom of Expression and Association.

itwould be ridiculous to limit that right just for sake of political correctness, if you have any fetish (red hair, white marble skin, shorter woman, etc), you should pursue it regardless of political correctness.

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joking aside, for many traditional societies, whiter skin usually mean more beautiful, so Caucasian does have some advantage.