Can't help but wonder if the fascination with blonde-hair-blue-eyes is a reflection of the desires of wider society. Do we really regard such people as the Master Race?
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Can't help but wonder if the fascination with blonde-hair-blue-eyes is a reflection of the desires of wider society. Do we really regard such people as the Master Race?
I think "master race" is misleading term. There is a sentiment that blonde hair and blue eyes are attractive features, and I think that many, if not the majority, have preferences for these features.
Idk...the fact that the most attractive features pertain to a single physical type (caucasians) is pretty interesting to me.
He mentioned master race because the Aryas of Nazi propaganda all had blue eyes and blonde hair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
I personally prefer silver or black hair. Or brown. Blondes tend to be stupid.... :eep:
Also what Mirage said about Japan and people with blue eyes/blonde hair being foreign/exotic to them. I think it relates to that more than to anything else.
I never noticed it before, but he's right. lol. I'm rooting for brown or green eyes myself.
This is an issue not only in Final Fantasy, but in video games in general. It's even more surprising to me with Japan that despite being an Asian country there are a ton of Caucasian representation in their games. There is so much potential in branching out among other races and ethnicity, but all Japan does is go off of material from Europe and occasionally Japan.
Is there some fascination with Caucasians over there? The exotic thing sounds like a bs excuse to me because I would think that would apply to like every non-European country out there excluding North America and Australia, but you don't see India for example constantly putting those images within their media. Japan also has a B-style following, but as far as games go no representation of that.
They are missing so much by not tapping into mythology and settings from around the world. They could make a RPG set in ancient Egypt, an RPG based on Yoruba mythology, an RPG set in the antebellum South, South America, a Hip-Hop RPG
This is also pretty prevalent in Disney movies. Even when a princess isn't blonde, she usually has blue eyes! Belle and Snow White are the only Caucasians who have an eye color other than blue (okay, well I guess Rapunzel too, but she's also blonde and I'm not counting her anyways).
There are also not that many white princesses, though, comparatively speaking.
I was just speaking about the Caucasians and how blue-eye syndrome is something Disney also deals with.
He looks demonic in that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic