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Edited by TheArtist:
7/12/2018 1:50:31 PM
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Homosexulity is a minority that is part of the normal range of human variation.
With a prevalence somewhere between that of being Jewish, and that of being Native American in the US population.
Ana Bray---if you look at her---is clearly someone who is of "Amer-Asian" descent.
Yet no one insists that her benig part Asian is "forced diversity" and need to JUSTIFY its existence.
Ikora Rey is African-American...and no one is saying (openly) that her being Black has to "justify" its presence in the story and her being in a position of leadership and responsibility doesn't "reflect life".
Oh and Destiny does imitate Life in that Guardians have been pulled from the full range of the human family. Not just Europeans. Straight people or men.
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Very well said. It says more about someone's world view and circle of friends that they feel inclusion of diversity is forced. Especially in a world post collapse. As if lgbtq and minorities can't survive as well as white males "because".
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[quote]Very well said. It says more about someone's world view and circle of friends that they feel inclusion of diversity is forced. Especially in a world post collapse. As if lgbtq and minorities can't survive as well as white males "because".[/quote] Why is your default group, outside of LGBTQ and minorities, "white males"? Does that say something about your world view and circle of friends?
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Edited by TheArtist: 7/12/2018 8:15:36 PMBecause that's the dominant group....and the group that preferentially holds power if you live in any European country, or country that is a former European immigrant nation (US, Canada, Australia, etc..). That isnt "prejudice". That's demographic reality in 2018.
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[quote]Because that's the dominant group....and the group that preferentially holds power if you live in any European country, or country that is a former European immigrant nation (US, Canada, Australia, etc..). That isnt "prejudice". That's demographic reality in 2018.[/quote] "Dominant group"? Define dominant. The countries you mention are democracies comprising elected representatives of established political parties, not a bunch of white male social clubs. Do the names Angela Merkel, Theresa May, Julia Gillard, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor or a bit close to home for me, Arlene foster or Mary Lou McDonald mean anything to you? European and former European 'immigrant' countries, as you put it, will tend to have demographics skewed towards large white populations because . . . shock horror, Europeans tend/tended to be white. And all the countries you mention do not actively discriminate against their non white populations. That's political reality 2018.
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Look up which ethnic group makes up the majority...defines the cultural standard...and controls the wealth. Demographic. Reality.
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[quote]Look up which ethnic group makes up the majority...defines the cultural standard...and controls the wealth. Demographic. Reality.[/quote] The 'cultural standard' of any country gets laid down at the point the country is established and evolves alongside the population, it can be held by any member of the population no matter who they are. The world is not one big homogeneous group of people. The culture of any country will follow the largest group within any population demographic, that's common sense. I don't agree with the term 'cultural standard' I think cultural heritage would be a fairer way to put it. " . . . and controls the wealth"? This is a really silly thing to say, how do you explain poor people who fall within the majority demographic. I really need you to define exactly which ethnic group you believe holds all this power and abuses it the detriment of, again, which group?
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Edited by TheArtist: 7/12/2018 6:10:19 PM...and whatever doesn't look like me, or presents the world as I prefer to see it, needs to "justify" its inclusion. [b]The only "justification" necessary is that The Traveller picked Guardians based on their ability to wield the Light as a weapon.....and that's it.[/b] So the assumption that this means that everyone who got picked by The Traveller is going to be white, male, heterosexual, and Christian says more about the person making the assumption, than it does about the storytelling. Because simple probabilities would mean that a SHIT TON of Guardians would be coming from OTHER parts of the Human family...and not from what is (in terms of global reality) a MINORITY of the Human population.
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Exactly. That only becomes moreso when you add in the awoken and exos. Where was this video about cayde? Clearly adding an exo to the vanguard was forced diversity. One if the things I love about destiny is that the only white character I can think of at the moment is the one I made. And she was my third character after an exo Titan and awoken warlock. Holliday is the only one I can come up with.
