My bad dude, I thought you were implying that black people dont have different skin pigmentations, your right though, its getting better in terms of more pigmented characters, X has alot of different pigmented characters.Originally Posted by Prancing Mad
This is actually pretty bad advice.
It was a reference to "Brown Skin Lady". :\
Mos Def is the better Black Star, anyways.
I agree! Mos Def is an example of a positive image for Blacks.
Mos Def sucks compared to Kweli. Black star my ass. Talib doesnt star in [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img]ty movies.
Caveat: this is a joke
You can't call 'em Asian, that's racist. There is no Asia in the Final Fantasy worlds, so by likening them to Asians, all you're doing is saying "well Asian people do THIS, so this guy MUST be Asian", when the character isn't even from Earth at all. Square seems to be going with the name Hume for the humanoid race of the Final Fantasy games, differentiating them from Humans, so they don't correspond to Human ethnicities at all.
Once the creator of Survivor was asked why there are so many white people and so few black people on his show. He said he never thought about it, that the majority in America are white and that's where the contestents come from so it reflects the majority. Then he said that he's from England, so the whole politically correct and "Everyone's a racist because of something" isn't implanted in his head.
I think this is the same way. We're all taking this in a North America perspective where stand up comedians have made everything about black/white and how different we are. The Final Fantasy team would probably laugh at the idea of being racist.
Besides, there isn't ANY gay characters in any Final Fantasy period (call Tidus gay all you want but he still laid the moves down on Yuna. I'll give Kefka and Kuja a definite probably but that's all). But you don't see me storming the Square offices and making a gay parade out of how homophobic they all are....That's because they aren't thinking of it that way, they're just making games. I see people and just see people, I never think about it this much.
Besides, the Final Fantasy worlds are made up. There is no Africa and Asia and America. Barret is Midgarian and Wakka is Besaidian and Kiros is Galbadian and Raijin is Yaknowian and so on :laughing:
the minorities are say... in differant races.
For example, in FFVIII, you have your: Human, Shumi etc....
and another example is that FFXI is split up into differant races aswell.
ussually in FF the same race of people live in equality.
instead of being judged by colour, they are judged by form.
There are like ten gay characters in FFVII.
Lies all lies. Its pure blasphemy.
If you cant tell I just got a word of the day chart.
Come on it's not true what makes them look different is their faces, really you're worried to much about color and hispanics and blacks do have different shades just like asians, such as the Indians, Malayasians, and Mongolians. I did heard that they made Barret a stereotype in FFVII Advent Children.
I have... Japanase people, particularly those from the more Northern Provinces, are very fair skinned, and I've met some people from Saitama who had freckles....I've never seen an asian with freckles (but I won't discount the possibility).
Also about FF, it all depends on the game... There were plenty of Arabic/Inidic looking people in FF X, which, overall, had a generally Mid-Easter/Indian feel to it.... You could even liken the conflict between the Yevon and the Al-Bhed to the Arab/Israeli conflict (i.e. a large group of technologically backwards nations versus a small, technologically advanced one). Of course, most of the charachters fit Asian archaetypes, since, due to the fact that the creators are Japanese, that's the kind of people they know the most about (although there is a fairly large French sector and other gaijin population centers developing in Tokyo, so that may change, eventually). It's kind of interesting about this debate, becasue when I write a story or book, I try to give as accurate a representation of the people in the area as I can. For example, in this one Sci-fi series that I'm working on that's set 200 years in the future, the US population is mostly of racially mixed people, with the average skin tone being a medium brown, and all sorts of hair and eye colors. In addition, there's a large hispanic population (to kind of carry over current population trends), and even the president (who is actually the US representative to the Terran Union sentate, since the Union covers both the Solar and Alpha Centauri systems) is hispanic (his name is Henry Garcia).
I didn't see any indians but I saw some people who related to Native Americans such as Baralai.
It's difficult for pixels to have races.
But it sure is easy to make every FF main character blonde
"japanese people kiss white people's ass too much"
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