One thing i've noticed while adventuring through wow is the lack of people playing darker skinned human characters. I have played wow for about 2.5 years now and on a number of different servers for an extended amount of time. The only "black" character i can remember seeing is a bald paladin that was leveling in STV. I was unable to find any statistics that show the number of black human characters, but according to the wow census its found that the most played race is actually human.
This information might suggest that of the number of people that play the game, there must be a large number of these that play human characters, and of these players there always seems to be very few players that choose the darker skinned character skin. Being a minority in a predominantly white country i would like to believe that racial equality exists all around the world (of warcraft) and not just in Australia. However, the evidence suggest that this isn't true! Why don't people like playing black characters as much as they like to play white characters? Whats even worse?! Of the number of African Americans that play wow, surely the statistics suggest that most of you prefer playing a white character too!!
Another truth i would like to present is that in the character creation screen of wow its very difficult to try and make an asian human. Yes, you can fiddle around with the skin color tabs and think "yeh thats kinda like asian skin" but when you try and choose the right face you can never get the right one. I myself am asian and most of my friends are too, my friend ovaltiney attempted to roll an asian paladin. He did his best on character selection but we were never really satisfied with the overall asian representation that was available. What the real problem here is... WHERE ARE MY SQUINTY EYES!! If you saw me in real life you might say that one of my defining features are my very asian, very squinty eyes and i have to say, im very proud of my squinty eyes, but if i tried to represent myself and my people in wow? well... its just not possible.
So.. What does this all mean? is racial equality only in existence to keep up appearances when we are out and about? but when we go to our private homes, on our personal computers the real truth comes out.... NONE OF YOU WANT TO ROLL A BLACK CHARACTER and even if u wanted to YOU CANT ROLL AN ASIAN CHARACTER EITHER! your all racist on the inside but if you want to keep up appearances in wow too, just roll undead, they dun have much skin!
P.S why cant i roll a black gnome?!
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Why can't i roll a black blood elf. O wait a night elf. Then how come night elf are alliance and blood elf are horde. Is it saying that black elves and white elves cant be friend. That we have to kill each other and we are incompatible. Also is sylvannas like Michael Jackson in reverse because she was born white and became black. All these underlying racial messages.
Pretty much everything in WoW comes down to race. Horde versus Alliance is just a racial conflict. Open hostility based on race, does it get any more clear than that? The conflict between these two factions is based on past bad blood, however what about the bad blood over slavery, World Wars 1 and 2, the taking of the land from native populations? Is Blizzard implying that we should be openly hostile because of these issues and never reconciliate? Hell even if we did try to patch things up with the opposite faction we can't because of the language barrier! We can learn how to craft mystical weapons and flying machines, but we can't learn another language??? I also remember something in the terms of agreement that frowns upon the attempted communication between the two factions... Perhaps Blizzard wants us to continue the hate of others based on their race. Conspiracy!
My priest is Asian! She looks like lucy liu: an undead version of her.
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff214/yang811339/lucyliu.jpg
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add this bit to the end
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Hey there, thanks for your note in my blog! I'll add you to the New Blogs listing shortly and be sure to come back.
Regarding Racism on WoW I've been thinking about it myself but in a slightly different way - how it's not the color of the skin or the religious belief that folks balk against, it's classes and talent specs. A Hunter gets a bad rep before firing a single shot, just out of being a hunter among many, for instance.
And of course, in PvP situations, PvE specs (which are visible through use of certain skills or equipment) get a lot of razzing as well.
Weird how it changes online.
But I too would like to see more color in skins. Tauren lets you go pretty colored (in a few different ways) but the others, not so much!
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