Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.70.139.196-20140205003219/@comment-158.121.186.27-20150323165224

Basilisk Centauri wrote: Caliburdeath wrote: XDex wrote: /thread This seems a bit ethnologically overcompensative. After all, 9.5/10 of the characters we've seen already are white. If this is the crowd during the tournament, it makes sense, because they'd be from around the world, but otherwise, it doesn't. people complained about lack of not-white people. Now they've got not-white people they think there's too many not-white people.
 * snip pictures*

Honestly why do people even bother? It's like, it's a part of this fictional world get over it. Not all fictional worlds are the greatest equality-est utopias ever :/ I know this is late, but there is no "they". It's just one person complaining about "too many" non-white people. The picture looks fine; it's not "over-compensating". As some people said before, there does not need to be a reason for having non-white people. Yes, it's a fictional world, so if it includes giant scythe/guns, androids, and people with animal traits, magical auras then there should be no problem  of suspension of disbelief with having a variety of skin colors.

Remember this is not made in Japan, it's made in America. Just because it's anime-esque doesn't mean that RT has to stay true to the more problematic aspects of anime. Part of the existence of Faunus in the show is to include the theme that discrimination is bad. Most background characters are pallete swap clones anyway. So there is no reason not to include some skin color variety.