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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 972932" data-attributes="member: 7240">I live in a city that is 60-70% white; in my 22 years of gaming, I have gamed with exactly one non-white person. Unless you count me -- my mother is black, I grew up in a black family but the genetic lottery has made me look whiter than all but my whitest friends. Actually, the one non-white gamer I have worked with is also of mixed race but she looks about as non-asian as I look black. Even if I were black in any meaningful way (which I assure you I am not), my games over-represent white people beyond what any local population demographics could account for. While my circle of friends is also massively over-representative of white people (90%+) it is not as massively over-representative as my gaming circle. Of course, like any good white leftist, I feel very guilty about all this.Now, to clarify, I'm not talking about ethnicity here; I'm talking about race. I don't really think the specific ethnic European backgrounds of players can count as "races" -- at least in North America discourse where race has, perhaps, a different meaning than in Europe.</blockquote>