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Derin

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Game Characters Are Too Male and Too White, Study Finds (Switched)

Aug 6th 2009 4:04AM Same was said about sexism back in the day where game interfaces included an option to click and unclad a damsel (this was a battle game by the way). As I stated above, It's not about being politically correct or not offending anyone but that it promotes social segregation. And about the japanese making white males comment, I never said it was because of the makers themselves but the ruling idea, the trend if you will, that makes it even more interesting as we see the segregated party promoting the majority.

Apart from HL2 and a few other games, I've yet to see believable female characters. When it comes to race, even the remedy is tragicomical, in an attempt of (perhaps) positive discrimination, there are new faux roles created (such as the African American wise men (a la morgan freeman).

Game Characters Are Too Male and Too White, Study Finds (Switched)

Aug 5th 2009 7:56AM It is not about political correctness but healthy diversity. Promoting a dominant culture can only lead to further alienation/separation of minorities.

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance."