People Worked Up Over Mr. Game N Watch

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twintail said:

Cucumberry said:
Being Australian I don’t know how how offensive this is to the Native American people, if it is then it’s just a minor aesthetically change that hurts nobody and appeases some so no harm. Though with my limited knowledge and thus ignorance of the situation I find it no more offensive than a cave man with a club, an old English knight in a suit of armour, Samaria attire, togas, kilts or boomerangs. It’s just cultural history, right? If he turned red in the animation I could understand and would openly push for removing it. Anyways, it doesn’t change the game and if it was removed prior to footage being shown then it wouldn’t matter. Again, Australian and could be missing a sensitive issue here so feel free to correct me :)

Because its not the image itself but the context behind it. Imagine if a 1982 game had a scenario where Aborigines were enemies, and they were attacking a colonialist outpost, thus highlighting the indigenous group of Australia as savages, bad guys, and the colonizers were the hero/ good guys? Would you consider representation of that game highlighting the indigenous as savages as ok in the current climate of Australia?

 

couchmonkey said:

What I find hilarious is the source that I will not name is after Smash, when something like Street Fighter is entirely built on racial stereotypes.

SF was originally yeah. But the more modern variations have toned down a bit. Besides, there is a difference between stereotyping a race/ culture, and stereotyping them in a racist manner based on a dark history that mistreated said group in a negative light. Besides Blanka, you are getting very little of that in SF as it stands.

dx11332sega said:

Holding a torch is racist individuals complaining for nothing.Theres italians when it comes to super mario or india when it comes to dhalsims or Rashid in street fighter 5 and his turbin on his head which is equilevant of native american feather on head where did this person come from?

Your Mario and SF examples are not remotely the same thing. Stereotyping is not inherently racist.

How do we draw the line between character design stereotyping and character design racism? I'm not challenging you, it's just a question. And I'm not talking about game's plot, just design.