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<blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 6596729" data-attributes="member: 6777696"><p>Dude, are you just trolling?</p><p></p><p>Ain't nobody said that there's not a diversity amongst white people. Whites come in all different shapes, sizes and shades. Now, personally, out of the list that you've provided, I think I might be able to come up with 3 groups and <em>maybe</em> say, "oh yeah, this portrait is of a slavic/eastern european type." And "this portrait is of a scandinavian type." I could not tell the difference between an English person and a Dutch person just by looking at a picture.</p><p></p><p>But if you say, "these portraits are so diverse! We have a english white person, a scottish white person, a norwegian white person, a baltic white person, a bohemian white person, a spanish white person, and an african black person!" That's distorting the meaning of diversity and just reinforcing the idea that "fantasy is about white people," because you bothered to break your white people down into all their respective cultures and subcultures, whereas most fantasy settings have just one or two cultures each for every non-european continent.</p><p></p><p>Anybody should be able to open up a D&D player's handbook, thumb through the pages, and find characters who they can see themselves in. Now, if they choose to see themselves in a character who doesn't look at all like their projected self image, that's fine. But they shouldn't have to. Nor should they need to say, "oh, well, this dude is the only dude who looks remotely like me. cool."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redrick, post: 6596729, member: 6777696"] Dude, are you just trolling? Ain't nobody said that there's not a diversity amongst white people. Whites come in all different shapes, sizes and shades. Now, personally, out of the list that you've provided, I think I might be able to come up with 3 groups and [I]maybe[/I] say, "oh yeah, this portrait is of a slavic/eastern european type." And "this portrait is of a scandinavian type." I could not tell the difference between an English person and a Dutch person just by looking at a picture. But if you say, "these portraits are so diverse! We have a english white person, a scottish white person, a norwegian white person, a baltic white person, a bohemian white person, a spanish white person, and an african black person!" That's distorting the meaning of diversity and just reinforcing the idea that "fantasy is about white people," because you bothered to break your white people down into all their respective cultures and subcultures, whereas most fantasy settings have just one or two cultures each for every non-european continent. Anybody should be able to open up a D&D player's handbook, thumb through the pages, and find characters who they can see themselves in. Now, if they choose to see themselves in a character who doesn't look at all like their projected self image, that's fine. But they shouldn't have to. Nor should they need to say, "oh, well, this dude is the only dude who looks remotely like me. cool." [/QUOTE]
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