Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20161223190810/@comment-25936766-20161224172717

Arkantos95 wrote: It does imply that their numbers have been far fewer than humans from the get-go. Otherwise human supremacy makes no sense. Not really. Remember Faunus used to be hunted down left and right by humans and Grimm. Humans, only by Grimm.

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@KNN: Regarding western RPGs like Fallout, ME, DA....you must be willingly ignoring the fact that many western RPGs also lack ugly people of any race. In Bioware's case, specifically, every woman, even the oldest granny, has an hourglass figure and a C-cup minimum, while all men are tall and muscular as if everyone went to the gym.

Sure, they have more non-white characters that aren't at least arguably stupid, but they're not entirely better. Not to mention, leaving aside Character Customization, there's still a lack of non-white protagonists.

In Dragon Age Origins, the closest thing is Zevran, who's more like a Latino than anything, and Sten, whose entire race is purple (DAO's Qunari weren't simply due to engine limitations, and he still looks slightly purple). Same with Mass Effect 1, where your only non-alien squadmates are white and slightly-less-white. And in ME2, you only have 1 black squadmate.....who is also the most boring of them all, and cheats on you in the sequel if you romance him (he's the only one who does this, mind you).

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In Japan's case, both with JRPGs and Anime&Manga, the thing is, Japan is an extremely isolated, xenophobic society, very nationalistic and traditional. As a result, they have very outdated values, to the point their way of thinking is pretty much alien, and are not as open to or accepting of multiple things.

The "Japanese Egocentrism":

-Leads to everyone being white as snow.

-Leads to everything happening and focusing in Japan, especially Tokyo.

-Leads to Japan being glorified as an innocent Utopia (usually with the US being a corrupt Mordor preying on it).

-Leads to the scarcity of non-white characters, and even those who are not 100% japanese, tend to be at least part japanese, and rarely act any different.

-Leads to things like homosexual people (and in a way transgender/crossdressing/androgenous people) being walking jokes.