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[AlanC9]

Looking at the list, it's not bad on blacks and Hispanics, although it'd be nice to see someone with really African features (I don't think the CC could have handled it, though.) But Asians seem underrepresented, and declining as the series progresses. I think there's just one in ME3 if you didn't buy Kasumi.

[Fixers0]

Let's just say "white," then.

 

 But then "white" people don't constitute a uniform ethnic group either. We still have to subdivide them in Germanics, Alphines, Basques, Uralics, etc.

 

There is something to be said for under representation of these groups in Mass Effect as the designers heavily leaned of Anglo-Amercian centrism. As such ethnicities tend to be represented from an Amercian point of view. For example in Europe the distinction between "white" and "hispanic" people really isn't often made.

[Seboist]

Ah, but that's yet another discussion. Most Turkish people and many Hispanics, for example, look white, yet they're rarely thought of as such.

That's more of an idiotic U.S thing than anything else. The whole "hispanic" category is an artificial U.S invention to begin with, which is as dumb as grouping native english speaking whites, blacks and asians as some kind of "Germanic" ethno-racial category.

 

I've lost count at the amount of times I had to explain in the Dead or Alive 5: Last Round board on gamefaqs that being black and "hispanic" isn't something inherently contradictory(as if all those hispanophone afro-cubans,afro-colombians,etc don't exist). This was in reference to the Lisa Hamilton character btw.

[AlanC9]

Ah, but that's yet another discussion. Most Turkish people and many Hispanics, for example, look white, yet they're rarely thought of as such.

It's all crap anyway. Back when African-American started to get popular, I had a South African professor, of English extraction. She used to joke that her children were African-American; since she was African and her husband was American.......

[UpUpAway]

Looking at the list, it's not bad on blacks and Hispanics, although it'd be nice to see someone with really African features (I don't think the CC could have handled it, though.) But Asians seem underrepresented, and declining as the series progresses. I think there's just one in ME3 if you didn't buy Kasumi.

 

If you think about it, there are very few new minor character humans introduced in ME3.  Leng, Osoba, Cortez, Vega, Traynor, and Cole are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head... none of whom are white.  ETA:  Oh, perhaps the Bryson's (Anne and her father, if you bought the Leviathan DLC).

[Seboist]

It's all crap anyway. Back when African-American started to get popular, I had a South African professor, of English extraction. She used to joke that her children were African-American; since she was African and her husband was American.......

The use of the "African-american term"(which is just a PC synonym for "black") can get real dumb at times, like I once saw on IMDB some black british actor being referred to as "African-american", this despite the fact that this was in a forum for a British movie set in Britain and where he spoke with a British accent.

[Cz-99]

All my keks are top.

[SofaJockey]

Mass Effect does fine.

It's no Witcher III...

 

(ducks for cover...)

[Hammerstorm]

Mass Effect does fine.

It's no Witcher III...

 

(ducks for cover...)

 

I think that is good. There should not be any swords in mass effect.

[Monk]

So, in other words, the OP could learn this word us Westerners use, called "research". Just saying.

[SmilesJA]

I just hope you can make actual dark skin black people. 

[Lady Artifice]

I saw the thread title on the front page, and was not remotely surprised to discover who the OP is.

[AlanC9]

If you think about it, there are very few new minor character humans introduced in ME3. Leng, Osoba, Cortez, Vega, Traynor, and Cole are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head... none of whom are white. ETA: Oh, perhaps the Bryson's (Anne and her father, if you bought the Leviathan DLC).

Good point. If I'd been working there and had thought of it -- not a sure thing -- I'd have switched one or two of those to Asian. Maybe Traynor; I once knew a Burmese girl from Singapore who sounded a lot like her, actually. But they're not doing a bad job at this, and ME3 didn't have a lot of room for new human characters. Underrepresentation of Asians in ME3 relative to the earlier games is largely an artifact of the ME1 characters not having a reason to show up again.

Oh, and let's add Grace Sato from N7:Communications Hub.

[Hrulj]

What is your fetish with troll threads? I dont see how you devise pleasure from them

[Sartoz]

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I just want to enjoy playing a Mass Effect game. 

[malloc]

Better handling of black characters please, Jacob was a terrible attempt. What the hell was bioware thinking?

 

PS. The argument that bioware didn't know better because of the small black population in Canada is such a bad one. It assumes they are building off stereotypes and if that is what they wanted then they executed perfectly.

[AlanC9]

Can't Jacob just be a badly handled character, rather than a badly handled black character?

[ShadyKat]

Can't Jacob just be a badly handled character, rather than a badly handled black character?

There was nothing wrong with Jacob in terms of race. Jacob was just generally pretty damn boring.

[Seraphim24]

That's more of an idiotic U.S thing than anything else. The whole "hispanic" category is an artificial U.S invention to begin with, which is as dumb as grouping native english speaking whites, blacks and asians as some kind of "Germanic" ethno-racial category.

 

I've lost count at the amount of times I had to explain in the Dead or Alive 5: Last Round board on gamefaqs that being black and "hispanic" isn't something inherently contradictory(as if all those hispanophone afro-cubans,afro-colombians,etc don't exist). This was in reference to the Lisa Hamilton character btw.

 

Yeah this thread reeks of jamming crappy stupid Americano pandering into yet another entertainment franchise.

 

America truly is the worst.

[Xilizhra]

Good point. If I'd been working there and had thought of it -- not a sure thing -- I'd have switched one or two of those to Asian. Maybe Traynor; I once knew a Burmese girl from Singapore who sounded a lot like her, actually. But they're not doing a bad job at this, and ME3 didn't have a lot of room for new human characters. Underrepresentation of Asians in ME3 relative to the earlier games is largely an artifact of the ME1 characters not having a reason to show up again.

Oh, and let's add Grace Sato from N7:Communications Hub.

Wait, Samantha is Asian, albeit of the Indian type.

[Furisco]

I want to play as an Egyptian woman who can rain justice from above with rockets.

JUSTICE RAINS FR- UGH

[o Ventus]

Yeah this thread reeks of jamming crappy stupid Americano pandering into yet another entertainment franchise.

 

America truly is the worst.

 

Try harder.

[Seraphim24]

Wait, Samantha is Asian, albeit of the Indian type.

 

Racial categorization is dumb to begin with should be thrown in the fire by all "countries" around the world, along with "national identities" and all that crap.

[Furisco]

I saw the thread title on the front page, and was not remotely surprised to discover who the OP is.

I bet that this guy doesn't have even one warning point.

[Seraphim24]

Try harder.

 

What? Pandering is as American as Apple Pie. It's coated every other Hollywood movie especially nowadays.