| NintendoCM said: The issue I find with most arguments as to why they would change it, is why does it negative effect you? Saying "why not just leave the character as white", is virtually the same as "what's the harm in making her a person of color". I see this day after day and it can make the video game community really toxic. I think the biggest factor is white people are represented 10 to 1 in cinema and television and studies show other demographics can gain more confidence, security, happiness when someone that represents them is in a film or television project. I'm not saying that it can't get out of hand, in the case of when it has no logical place. But it seems to me like people are making a mountain out of a moll hill. |
Theres this thing called being true to source material. Witcher books are based on Slavic mythologies and societies, which had exactly 0 contact with black/African societies. African/black people already have way, waaay more representation in media than any slavic group that arent Russian bad guys.
Also, Ciri's background is extremely important to her story, since she is a daughter of an emperor and a woman who's ancestor is Lara Doren. If you make her non-white, you'd have to also make any of these people non-white which would be beyond ridiculous.
Also, ''people of colour'' are actually vastly OVERrepresented in the US media, given that they are only 13% of the population. If the representation were to be ''fair'' only one in 9.5 actors/musicians/athletes would be black, but theres way more of them than that
