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naznatips on 01 August 2007
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Non Sequor said:
bulletstopper said:
So it was fine to go to a Eastern European town and slaughter thousands of "white" zombies but it is not OK to go to Africa and kill "black" zombies? Do you hear what you are saying? The setting is in Africa. Where alot of black people live! Its just reasonable that if you are in Africa and killing African zombies that they will probably be, by in large, BLACK! This is what is wrong with America today. We have double standards, and hypersensitivity that go farther in highlighting the racism than in diminishing it.

RE4 was in Western Europe unless you think there's a Spanish speaking country in Europe aside from Spain.

I did think it was kind of bizarre that they presented Spain as though it were a third world nation. And the "foreigner coming in to save people from themselves by killing them" bit was there in RE4 too.

 

I wasn't offended by the trailer. I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here.


I think the difference is in 2 major ways:

1. Any idiot knows Spain is a first world country. Obviously the village was fictional.

2. Leon was not doing the imperialistic "save them from themselves" thing. He was killing them for one purpose: to save himself and the president's daughter. We obviously don't know what the exact plot details are yet but I can see how him saying "I've got a job to do" can be taken in a bad way from a political standpoint. It's not really about racism as much as it is a cultural and political fopah.

Edit:  I should again say that personally I don't have a problem with it, I just see how it could be insensitive to some.  I'm more worried about the general plot of the game without the writers that made RE what it is in the first place.