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Yeah, I understand your point, I believe that's a very cool way of teaching values and morals to children, when they see a fictional hero and say "I want to be cool like that guy"

But then again, why does it need to be the same race, gender, sexuality as you, to feel represented by them? 

I'm not saying this to discriminate on inclusion or groups, or whatever. If you think I'm saying this as a white person, saying "I don't like black characters" that's not at all the point, I'm south-american, by the way. 

What I'm saying is that I didn't need a latino superman/spider-man while growing up to look up to them and feel represented by their values, ideas, actions, I saw them as role models for who they were, not how they looked like or other superficial traits.

What I mean is, that I believe we should teach people to follow ideas, morals, values, role models, for being perfect examples of humans, being of a certain race, minority or majority or whatever doesn't have anything to do with it. And as kids, myself included, you don't need to see race or the like, you need to see cool humans, and feeling included, represented or whatever won't be based about skin color, we're all literally of the same species anyway. I hope I expressed myself properly, and I took your comment as saying it was a requirement because you asked if the author could make their main character black, or add more black characters, but I would say that we should focus on judging the author's work by the story they're portraying, the writing, etc. And not by the inclusion they're showing or lacking.

Yeah but that's a personal perspective and motive that you are perceiving yourself, as you can't really decide whether or not the intention of an author was to discriminate certain races by not showing them, or rather hadn't thought about how to introduce a character. It's easy to assume things, and even easier to always think of the negatives, in my experience. 

For instance, let's say the author did in fact added a black-skinned character, and represented them in a stereotypical way that showed his personality biased by his "race", now you have a character that I could point at and say "Hey! You're stereotyzing (or however you say that) a black character! That's racist!". Wich would be a dumb thing to say, on the contrary, you can also critique the game and say "Hey! You don't have black characters, that's discriminating!", wich I feel is also stupid, not everything has to be about race, and not every story needs inclusion of every other human group there is. And I mentioned that while it is cool to feel represented by a character for their race, traits, etc. Why can't you feel represented by a human that's not your same race, ethnicity, gender? Instead of judging values, ways of thinking, and judging people by being humans just as we are, we are pointing out their color skin, I'm latino and light-skinned, but I feel represented by asian football players due to their discipline, independent women, etc. 

I am actually not white, light-skinned maybe, and south-american, not from the states. And no, being white, straight and male hasn't really gave me the privilege of a perfect life, because the world doesn't work based on race, so your assumption is actually racist itself (and even sexist and almost discriminative based on sexuality too, wich is crazy double standards), as you assume every white straight male person lacks the "moral values" to have empathy or have suffered in life. I've been bullied for having curly hair, discriminated due to my average height, insulted for having to wear glasses back when I was a kid, abused by my mother, etc. 

So, let me guess, you're a soft person who's been a victim of a bad occurence in your life or victimized yourself based on a group you belong to (even if you weren't personally attacked), and now you wander life believing that certain groups, such as yours, and other minorities have a rough life while you despise other races, ethnicities, genders even(?, because of your ideology and also a lack of understanding other people views. Accurate enough?

No offense, but even as I do understand how cool it feels to immerse yourself with a character that represents you, you said it yourself, that's a preference, not a requirement. Games don't need to have inclusion of every gender, ethnicity and anything else, that's something that's been demanded more recently but I simply can't understand why.

idk 

lmfao, i non-respectuflly agree on that take