IGN takes issue with white male lead in Days Gone.

[Otter]

Kerotan said:

Otter said:

You have colorism topics in India where leads are always favoured towards fairer actors & the topic just recently came up in the casting of Jasmin in Alladin (although not Bollywood).

The crux is that the US is a melting pot where white people are actually on a verge of becoming out numbered by the collective "minorities". Thus race s a topic of content when these other minorities are not represented or poorly represented. Whereas India/China etc are vastly homogeneous and so its not expected that their films will be lead by non-indian/chinese actors. 

And no its absolutely not a worrying development for white people but at this point the topic isn't really deserving of more of my time. I'll leave you with this, just look at the amount of games just released with white leads and ask yourself if there is really a "worrying" development for white people. Remember also that you're just obsessing over one line (removed from context of the review which is actual praising the game), its not like this game is receiving any meaning backlash anywhere in the world. Just go to the movies, look at TV, turn on the news etc and you will see plenty of white faces. If at the flick of a wrist we saw 10% less white leads than what we're used to,  that would atcually be more reflective of what the US actually looks like, if thats worrying to you then there lays your issue. 

I agree with your point regarding America that white people are not as dominant as they once were. But the point I'm trying to make regarding India is you could just as easily say, oh another Gruff Indian leading this new bollywood film, how boring. And my reply would be the same. Why does it matter if the lead is yet again Indian. It shouldnt be a factor. Now if games were being made based in say Africa and they were picking white leads regularly I could see a point in complaining. 

If you agree with my boldened point then you should get why.  They wouldn't mention Indian because its the expectation that the lead will be indian and any other ethnicity would be far off from the countries population & raise eyebrows. Instead the comment would just be "oh, another gruffy, generic masculine lead" because Indian is a given... In the US you have almost half the population representing hispanic, black, asian yet very little of this represented in games, which is why white is also mentioned. As has been said 100x, change the race of the character and he wouldn't appear so generic on  appearance value and author of the review may have been more intrigued or found it refreshing. I've already broken my promise not to respond again in this thread so I won't elaborate anymore (no one outside of the this forum seems to care about this topic anyway lol) 

Have a nice week, hope you understand now