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<blockquote data-quote="ArchfiendBobbie" data-source="post: 7731759" data-attributes="member: 6867728"><p>The Flan could be describing any of the native Mediterranean groups, from southern Europe to the Mid-East to Northern Africa, without leaving the lightest skin tone. There tended to be a lot of interbreeding between these groups, thanks to the wars and invasions and slave trades.</p><p></p><p>The Oeridian could be any number of racial groups in Asia or even parts of Europe. It's also getting into "all Asians look alike" territory to think it represents them all.</p><p></p><p>The Suel describe members of three different racial groups: The Celts/Germanic tribes, the Norse, and the Mongolians (Genghis Khan was a redhead).</p><p></p><p>The essential problem with using this kind of argument is that we can satisfy all three examples without ever leaving Europe. Each one is written in such a way it could be describing people from wildly diverse racial groups, some having oceans between them, without a need to come up with names for the several hundred racial groups that actually exist. But at the same time, the broadness works against it as a diversity argument because of how easy it can be to find all of these Faerun groups native to the same real-life continent.</p><p></p><p>Pretty much, I think [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION] is on the right path for how to think when addressing the diversity issue. But doing it just to match fictional races allows for a lot of laziness when you don't even have to leave one racial umbrella group to fill all the roles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ArchfiendBobbie, post: 7731759, member: 6867728"] The Flan could be describing any of the native Mediterranean groups, from southern Europe to the Mid-East to Northern Africa, without leaving the lightest skin tone. There tended to be a lot of interbreeding between these groups, thanks to the wars and invasions and slave trades. The Oeridian could be any number of racial groups in Asia or even parts of Europe. It's also getting into "all Asians look alike" territory to think it represents them all. The Suel describe members of three different racial groups: The Celts/Germanic tribes, the Norse, and the Mongolians (Genghis Khan was a redhead). The essential problem with using this kind of argument is that we can satisfy all three examples without ever leaving Europe. Each one is written in such a way it could be describing people from wildly diverse racial groups, some having oceans between them, without a need to come up with names for the several hundred racial groups that actually exist. But at the same time, the broadness works against it as a diversity argument because of how easy it can be to find all of these Faerun groups native to the same real-life continent. Pretty much, I think [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION] is on the right path for how to think when addressing the diversity issue. But doing it just to match fictional races allows for a lot of laziness when you don't even have to leave one racial umbrella group to fill all the roles. [/QUOTE]
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