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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 5997673" data-attributes="member: 23935">And that'd help?  Really?  It's not like humans have more than one race in the real world.Complaints in popular culture don't have to be true; they have to be interesting to popular media.Brandishing a book and claiming the game is really <insert least favorite cultural group>'s subliminal propaganda and a brainwashing attempt aimed at our impressionable youth is both interesting to the media and damning for the company publishing it.Avoiding such complaints is almost impossible as well.  Look at the Canadian $100 dollar bill.  A single image of a non-descript person is first cast as non-inclusive and sterotyping (asian female looking into a microsope) and then as non-inclusive and a affront to diversity when the features are made less distinctive/more Caucasian.To make cultures interesting, you need a combination of mechanical and cosmetic variation.  The cosmetic variation is the dangerous one.  There is a lot of cosmetic variation over recorded history and someone will be able to associate a variant in game with a real-world analogue and take exception to its depiction.</blockquote>