Raizo wrote...
It's like Bioware hasn't learnt anything from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Now ME3 has it's very own Jar Jar Binks. As someone who was born and grew up in the Caribbean I find this to be highly racist and offensive.
Jar Jar Binks wasn't hated because of the accent, but because his entire character AND the accent was played for laughs by exploiting stereotypes. You could have switched out the accent for a regular american one, and he would STILL have been hated.
This isn't the case with Prothy, obviously. He isn't a character that is played for jokes, and neither is his accent. Absolutely NOTHING about him is stereotypical - quite the opposite. My theory on why he was given an african accent is because the culture of africa is old and powerful, and because it is the origin and cradle of mankind and the ancestral foundation of modern society, much like the Protheans laid the foundation of the current cycle of galactic civilization.
Also, Prothy's accent isn't Caribbean. If you
really were Caribbean, you'd know.