Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.70.139.196-20140205003219/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140205084637

In all seriousness I think it makes sense that we have yet to see a black character. Monty said himself that some of the traditional name pronunciations in the real world have been abanadoned (such as the pronunciation of Weiss Schnee) because he believed it made no sense for the RWBY world to feature such accents and hint at such cultures because they don't actually exist. That being said it could be possible that african-like cultures just do not exist, especially when you note the fact that its possible that the majority of Remnant is under Grimm control, if third world countries are a thing in RWBY then I don't see anywhere like Zimbabwe or Vietnam holding out too long against the Grimm hordes.

Furthermore you need to remember that the RWBYverse is still in a state of prejudice and widespread discrimination. It's possible that segregation is playing a large part in separating said potential characters from the main plot. Or perhaps due to discrimination the countries of Vytal just don't have very many people of diverse ethnicities living there.

Also @caliburdeath: Remnant = Earth, Vytal = Europe, Vale = Germany/UK/France/Spain*


 * Basically one of the richer European countries.