Filament wrote...
Fast Jimmy wrote...
But to say that everyone who choses an industry-familiar, fantasy European-esque setting is racist is a pretty large statement. That basically is calling a whole host of writers, directors and authors racist.
K, where do I sign?
I just think it's a little convenient that he's kind of having it both ways. It's not medieval Europe, but it kinda is, and if it was, medieval Europe totally had black people so that's OK, but not Asians, except when it does. I understand there is probably a difference in degree, particularly around the mediterranean, without researching historical population records or whatever. But there is no mediterranean equivalent in Thedas separating not-Europe from not-Africa, because Thedas is not Europe, but black people just happen to be there anyway, because Europe totally did so that's OK.
Which apparently, according to you, would also imply disgusting self-segregation, but I think that's a bit of a silly train of thought anyway.
Well, that's fair that you have that opinion of the writing team (largely, Gaider himself, since he did the vast majority of the heavy lifting early on the world building process, so he could be said to have fashioned the "European-esque, white" Thedas). But I think that is a dfferent thread... "Bioware is racist because there are no Asians in Thedas." Not "There should be Asians in Thedas." I don't personally ascribe to that theory (again... Jade Empire says hello), but you are more than welcome to create a new thread that more clearly states the perceived problem issue.
I would also say that you could consider me going off the rails on that silly train, then. Because its basic genetics - races look alike because they have been breeding together for hudnreds, thousands and even TENS of thousands of years. If you were to mix people with different racial traits together for hundreds or thousands of years, they would cease being separate races merge into a new one, unless, of course, there is reproduction segregation going on... or the constant introduction of new races, as well. You'd need a large, robust population of new race roughly every couple hundred years to stem the tide of a 1,000 years of co-mingling. And even then... that would likely result in a roughyl equivalent number of integrated racial traits, not preservations of the original racial traits entirely.
Yes, it is fantasy. And yes, it is fiction. Bioware's fiction, in fact. So they can do whatever they please. But just like if they suddenly included airplanes or samurai swords out of the blue, or magic suddenly required a short wand and the incantation of silly words like "Expeliarmus" or "Tarantallegra" like some fictional lore does, changing the setting that has been established with no attempt at an explanation hurts the narrative. In my opinion and, apparently, in Bioware's.
So... make the Fex turn out to look Asian? Cool. No one's talked about what they look like and we haven't seen them in any visual media, so I'd be fine with it. Have an odd looking ship arrive on the coast, looking battle damaged and full of strange looking humans? Sign me up.
Turn random NPC's in the Orlesian market to suddenly represent every conceivable ethnicity in our real world with no real background of what's going on? Nope. That sounds like bad story telling and narrative consistency.
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