Why this word is great
MUKOKUSEKI — [Noun] A deliberate artistic convention in visual fiction, especially anime and manga, of depicting characters without identifiable ethnic or national features, creating a culturally neutral, "stateless" archetype. From Japanese 無国籍 (mukokuseki), from 無 (mu, "without") + 国籍 (kokuseki, "nationality"), literally "statelessness" or "without nationality." Unlike ethnocentric design, which anchors a work in a specific cultural reality, or caricature, which distorts features for satire or humor, mukokuseki is an act of strategic subtraction, a crafted void toward a frictionless blank. It is the uniform, wide-eyed gaze of a thousand protagonists; the hair in impossible shades of azure and rose; and the features sanded smooth of any specific lineage—a visual lingua franca born from the quiet anxiety of belonging nowhere, and thus, theoretically, to everywhere.