Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161211174540/@comment-14138255-20161219171149

As far as the show is concerned, there are only 5 cultures (Atlesian, Vacuoan, Vale, Mistralian, and Faunus) and 2 distinct, socially stratified races (human and Faunus). Conventional race and racism doesn't seem to be a thing (a white human and a black human aren't particularly different from each other, but a black human and a black faunus are considered to be different from each other).

It really doesn't matter how Flynt's family lost their shop, only that it happened and it happened to countless others. According to WoR, it happened the same way Walmart killed off its competition: it's prices were cheaper and they were bigger. Thus, anyone throwing their hat into the arena is going to lose their hat.

There probably are Hispanic (which halfway counts as European considering Spain is in Europe) and African names in Remnant, it's just we haven't seen any. Keep in mind Arabic can technically count considering a huge chunk of Africa is Muslim and reads, writes, and speaks Arabic.