User blog:Gundam Legilis/Penny For Your Thoughts: Is Vale and all of Remnant Racist?

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Hello everybody!

I always wondered about the level of racism (against Faunus) in Remnant's society. And what put it back in my mind was this video I saw this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzdQ6_0aDxw

But then I wondered: Hold on a second. So far, the only examples are Roman (who's views are no better than any of the racist laypeople), the SDC, and CRDL. Neon and Sun, two Faunus, are allowed to compete in the Vytal Festival, where Sun was adored, and the two of them were welcomed with cheers and not a single boo. And most of the background characters have been shown not to do anything bad to the Faunus. And the named Faunus are non-segregated either. Barring Menagerie, where everyone abandoned by the end of the FRR, there doesn't seem to be any part of the Kingdoms where there are slums that are predominantly occupied by Faunus (i.e. Remnant's version of Chicago and Detroit).

With the rise of the new and improved White Fang, there are bound of corporations aside from the Schnees, along with the citizens who will change their views, assuming they were racist to begin with. Hell, some of them may be ahead of the curve and introduce all sorts of quotas (diversity and affirmative action quotas) to at the very least not look like racists. The truly smart and paranoid ones not only would ditch racist attitudes, but zealously attack humans for perceived slights misconstrued as racism.

And then we have this:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/RWBY

So what exactly is the scope of racism in Vale? Is it simply using name calling? Is it physical abuse? Is it preferential treatment?

And just how exactly do they stack up with our world?

Thoughts?

-Gundam Legilis