Quote Originally Posted by Anaisa
He doesn't look black, but he's brown. Why are "black people" called black, when their not even black?, their brown . Although white people are called white, when their not white either. But thats because there is no colour the same shade as "white people".
Arabs and Indians get to be called "brown". Don't listen to Talib Kweli.

I agree with the fact that racial homogeniety doesn't imply racism. I also liked the diversity of FFVII's cast and I wish there would be more of it. However, not all countries have the luxury of having such a diverse culture as America or Britain, so it is understandable to see games with characters of limited diversity.

Also, these games are meant to be in a fantasy setting. People may look all white or Asian, but those concepts have no meaning in a fantasy world. Square has chosen from FFIX and onward to parallel our racial conflicts with species conflicts. We had Genomes, Burmecians, Cleyrans, Dwarves, Black Mages, Qus, and more in FFIX. We had Al Bhed and Ronso in FFX (and the parallels of African-American discrimination to Al Bhed discrimination were pretty obvious). It is superficial and foolish to call these games racist because they don't carry our conventional races. It's "Fantasy" for a reason.