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<blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 8022052" data-attributes="member: 7015707">This! Exactly this! If there is any real problem it is this and this is the problem that they should be fixing!They need to be more like Warhammer 40000 and make their non-humans actually non-human, to the point where they couldn't possibly be mistaken for a caricature of a real world ethnicityYes it does. If they're different species they're supposed to be different. A dog isn't a cat! And neither the dog nor the cat are a pig! (For that matter, a dog isn't even a wolf or a fox either. Nor is the housecat a lion or a tiger nor tiger a lion or the lion a tiger, despite the existence of ligers and tigons).1.) Orcs and goblins are generally depicted as having green or orange skin. While some real-life ethnicities have been stereotyped as having skin colors they don;t actually have I'm pretty sure that none of them have been stereotyped as being green. And orange skin is associated with white people.2.) All of the remaining stereotypes have been applied to white people as well (particularly to people from the southern USA, from Appalacia, and from tornado alley). The stereotype of being stupid and violent without necessarily being primitive has been applied even more widely, to the Irish, to Italians, to eastern Europeans, and to everyone from New York and New Jersey regardless of background.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bohandas, post: 8022052, member: 7015707"] This! Exactly this! If there is any real problem it is this and this is the problem that they should be fixing! They need to be more like Warhammer 40000 and make their non-humans actually non-human, to the point where they couldn't possibly be mistaken for a caricature of a real world ethnicity Yes it does. If they're different species they're supposed to be different. A dog isn't a cat! And neither the dog nor the cat are a pig! (For that matter, a dog isn't even a wolf or a fox either. Nor is the housecat a lion or a tiger nor tiger a lion or the lion a tiger, despite the existence of ligers and tigons). 1.) Orcs and goblins are generally depicted as having green or orange skin. While some real-life ethnicities have been stereotyped as having skin colors they don;t actually have I'm pretty sure that none of them have been stereotyped as being green. And orange skin is associated with white people. 2.) All of the remaining stereotypes have been applied to white people as well (particularly to people from the southern USA, from Appalacia, and from tornado alley). The stereotype of being stupid and violent without necessarily being primitive has been applied even more widely, to the Irish, to Italians, to eastern Europeans, and to everyone from New York and New Jersey regardless of background. [/QUOTE]

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