In English, a different pitch for a spoken word can convey different emotions but there are other languages that use complex tonality. Namely Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese where a word spoken in different pitch and tone can have several dozens or several hundred different meanings. And for these population, they do actively learn and adapt by their speech and listening comprehension since their fluency are heavily depended on these. Human sound systems and language was influenced by climate and geography. But it only mean that individual population can adapt physiologically to a language. If you're raised in an environment that encourage your fluency in a certain language, you're going to have developed perception of language that was different than others to that language, regardless of the race. People do sound differently from one another especially different gender and different background but that does not mean that its different because of their specific racial classification. There are no significance difference that prove that and all of these vocal tract dimensions and variation studies was merely studies done to identify differences for speech therapists in clinical settings, not a study on sociallinguistic or ethnolinguistic.
Which means, a person who was is born and raised as an American would still sound like an American regardless of their race. If that person suddenly move to another continent and raised their family in an environment that require them to adopt a specific linguistic norms or language, in several decades that family would assimilate and their descendants wouldn't be discernible from a native to that region, even more so in mixed family. I've met with Chinese who can't speak Chinese, Indian who can't speak Indian, my eurasian British cousins barely speak in their own mother's language and so on. Do you still insist that they sound different merely because of their preset ethnicity?
I don't recall anyone saying it was only due to preset ethnicity. Do you still insist on constructing straw men?
Removing words from the title to make it better suit your interpretation isn't the way to go.
And 'who cares', really ? You just have to look at the number of likes the OP got to see that a lot of people do care about it. And why shouldn't they ? If the character creator isn't letting people easily make their character look like they want them too it's not doing its job very well. This particular topic focuses on a lack of options when it comes to making non-white characters, especially black and East Asians ones. There have been many threads about the lack of other options (for example long hair and tattoos.) So far the CC in ME has made it very hard to make black and East Asians characters because pretty much none of the presets include 'non-white' facial features, and there aren't any options for natural hair beyond going bald.
The fact that I didn't type one word in one post doesn't change the interpretation. My two examples have different emphasis.
As to you blathering on in the second paragraph, I've already said the OPs request is completely reasonable when it comes to a character creator. I mean "who cares" more in relation to the marketing or "default" person.
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