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[NihilisticN]

Heard of this neat word? Assimilate.

[Rhostadt]

 This just goes to show that some people will go out of their way to be offended.  Frankly, people like the OP are the real reason why racism still exists, which absolutely cracks me up.

[Inverness Moon]

Political correctness can kiss my ass. We get too much of that crap in real life, I don't want it in my games too.

[AtreiyaN7]

Thanks for more trolling, or at least an utterly pointless post. I'm multi-racial, and I really don't care who has/doesn't have a European/Asian/whatever name. Kee-rist, my last name and first name are European, but I'm half-Chinese - go figure. Can the guy with the goofy shark pictures post them here? Maybe he has already.

[kallikles]

The OP has a bit of a point and it's not really about political correctness, but about immersion.



Humanity in ME2 kinda looks like it does in a big American city. There's nothing wrong with big American cities, but they don't quite reflect humanity as a whole - and humanity as a whole is what you'd encounter in space.



So, to summarize, ME3 will need more Asian chicks. Hot ones, preferably.

[ReubenLiew]

Considering how many Chinese and Indian descent peoples there are, in the future all mankind should be beige.

I'm just saying.

Eventually, we're coming for you.

[Jazharah]

In the preview of one of the novels (I think it's Revelations, the prequel to it all), there is an explanation of how humanity 'bonded together' and that there were no 'races' or particular nationalities anymore, just 'earth', due to the threat of the First Contact Wars.

Logical consequence is that names would no longer be tied to 'nationality' or race, but simply 'are'.

[deimosmasque]

BattleVisor wrote...

Im not being nitpicking, its horrendous, when virtually all characters have european names. If there were atleast 10% that didn't. Then I wouldn't have made this thread

You listed 12 names... of those 12 names you said 4 were eastern names.  That's 33%

[Garuda One]

I'm African American/Indian/Caucasian and a slew of other minorities I can't place my finger on because I forget what they are but the point is the earth had a giant orgy and I came from it. Also my last name is German.

Modifié par Garuda One, 13 février 2010 - 05:08 .

[Garuda One]

ReubenLiew wrote...

Considering how many Chinese and Indian descent peoples there are, in the future all mankind should be beige.
I'm just saying.
Eventually, we're coming for you.

In the future it's been predicted were all going to have a nice mocha latte colour, in Mass Effect, apparently this is true and the only two black people left are Jacob and Anderson.

[drunken pyromaniac]

This game is mostly marketed to European and North American audiences.
Guess which ethnicity most Europeans and North Americans are.

[huntrrz]

BattleVisor wrote...

Its funny how EDI says in the end, the human DNA is useful because of the diversity of humans, what diversity, everyone is european/american apparently.

I take your point and agree in principle.  However, I expect that the vast majority of players are european/american so that's why they didn't expend as much effort in finding names from other areas of the world.

(And at least they didn't start synthesizing 'future' names like the Legion of Super-Heroes did.  Imra Ardeen...  Ayla Ranzz...  Rokk Krinn...)

[Knoll Argonar]

kallikles wrote...

The OP has a bit of a point and it's not really about political correctness, but about immersion.

Humanity in ME2 kinda looks like it does in a big American city. There's nothing wrong with big American cities, but they don't quite reflect humanity as a whole - and humanity as a whole is what you'd encounter in space.

So, to summarize, ME3 will need more Asian chicks. Hot ones, preferably.

No, not at all.

Remember that it's really a "minority" the humans on Space. Moreover, in Earth only some countries have the mass effect fields tech, and they live just like we know. And the most important space organizations in current date are both european an american.

The culture that the aliance will show to aliens seems pretty clear considering these things. If i am not misstaken, the Aliance is not an international pact, but a political-cultural-militar organization independent frok all them. In other words, there is no need or intentions for them to show all cultures equally.

In my opinion the globalization mood in Mass Effect is realistic.

That fact even explains why Shepard is called Shepard.

Modifié par Knoll Argonar, 13 février 2010 - 05:31 .

[lord berwick]

Didn't mind the diversity I've encountered in both ME games.  I'm just glad that when Bioware went looking for someone to voice the genetically advanced human, they chose an Australian.
We are your genetic destiny! 

[westiex9]

lord berwick wrote...

Didn't mind the diversity I've encountered in both ME games.  I'm just glad that when Bioware went looking for someone to voice the genetically advanced human, they chose an Australian.
We are your genetic destiny! 

Must....Resist.... urge...... can't.....choosing an australian for genetic advancement was a great idea....as long as it doesn't involve cricket or rugby(plants a New Zealand flag salutes and then fleess in opposite direction)

on a more relevant note i thought the nationalities were very well represented in both mass effect games, in the first one alone you meet a french c-sec officer, a rear admiral with the surname mikhailovich, a russian researcher and Mr Bhatiya who is clearly of some south east asian descent.

Modifié par westiex9, 13 février 2010 - 06:27 .

[Harbinger of your Destiny]

Yea we need a Ramirez in ME3


"RAMIREZ TAKE OUT THAT REAPER WITH YOUR PISTOL!!"

Modifié par Harbinger of your Destiny, 13 février 2010 - 06:23 .

[westiex9]

Harbinger of your Destiny wrote...

Yea we need a Ramirez in ME3


"RAMIREZ TAKE OUT THAT REAPER WITH YOUR PISTOL!!"

He would go well with serviceman Chung and his Ferros slug

[JakePhalanx]

Harbinger of your Destiny wrote...

Yea we need a Ramirez in ME3


"RAMIREZ TAKE OUT THAT REAPER WITH YOUR PISTOL!!"

That would be amazing.

[Harbinger of your Destiny]

JakePhalanx wrote...

Harbinger of your Destiny wrote...

Yea we need a Ramirez in ME3


"RAMIREZ TAKE OUT THAT REAPER WITH YOUR PISTOL!!"

That would be amazing.

and he would do it without saying a word or gripe

[Thargorichiban]

Bah. Anderson is not an african-american. He was born in England. :oP

[DuffyMJ]

BattleVisor wrote...

Giantevilhead wrote...

You're counting two black characters as people of European descent?

Their names are anglo-saxon, therefore african-american, therefore american.

You can't be black with an anglo-saxon name and English or Australian or Kiwi or South African?  Huh.

[Harbinger of your Destiny]

westiex9 wrote...

Harbinger of your Destiny wrote...

Yea we need a Ramirez in ME3


"RAMIREZ TAKE OUT THAT REAPER WITH YOUR PISTOL!!"

He would go well with serviceman Chung and his Ferros slug

who was that again?

[the_devils_aid]

BattleVisor wrote...

Those who say its because the space faring character are from richer parts of the world, (not only is that a racist view of the future) but its pretty wrong,

actually, in the codex, the game says that there is still a growing difference between poor and rich nations

logic says that most of the nations that a currently very poor will stay poor in the next hundred years, while those that are powerfully rich stay rich.

the west is rich, the east is getting better, and the middle east/africa is very poor

your logic has just been flawed.

woohoo texas is poor, must mean that ALL of the future US is poor too right?

you want too see a bunch of asians in space? go see a cartoon.

[Harbinger of your Destiny]

the_devils_aid wrote...

BattleVisor wrote...

Those who say its because the space faring character are from richer parts of the world, (not only is that a racist view of the future) but its pretty wrong,

actually, in the codex, the game says that there is still a growing difference between poor and rich nations

logic says that most of the nations that a currently very poor will stay poor in the next hundred years, while those that are powerfully rich stay rich.

the west is rich, the east is getting better, and the middle east/africa is very poor

your logic has just been flawed.

woohoo texas is poor, must mean that ALL of the future US is poor too right?

you want too see a bunch of asians in space? go see a cartoon.

ASIANS

IN SPAAAAAACE

[GarethLorn]

According to the codex, only 3% of Earth's population volunteers to settle in colonies, and China got an entire planet which it received exclusive rights to colonize. Earth isn't united in the ME universe, we're still divided by countries and nationalities and such. The Alliance itself is diverse enough in race, and there aren't many people in the Alliance. I'd be surprised if it was more than a million. Things on Earth in ME have only gotten worse, if anything. We've only been space-faring for thirty-two years, and a part of the actual galactic community for even less. How many poverty-stricken factory workers in China do you think even know what a Turian is? How many random Africans can you imagine being chosen by Sirta Foundation to spearhead new colonial efforts? Most well-known corporations and companies are of western origin, as far as I'm aware. And most humans in space are either funded or employed by said corporations, or are part of the Alliance. Otherwise, they're random fortune-seekers (re: Diana and Nef on Omega, for example) or adventurers (Conrad Verner). I still don't know how Fist ended up owning Chora's Den.