Kermit O
WRITER • CYNIC • DREAMER — Writing a dreampunk novel about kids, trauma, and parallel worlds. Light brown. Unapologetically Black. Punches up.

Ethnic Depictions in Video Games

January 13, 2009 • Media Criticism, Race and Ethnicity, Video Games

Those of us who are not white, but hope to identify with the characters we play in games the same as anyone, find the industry to be deficient. At best we have had to settle for ethnically ambiguous characters, often in non-Earth settings, which while fulfilling an aesthetic need still leave players wanting for a more substantial connection. When characters of non-European ethnicities are depicted in video games, it is true that they are often stereotypes.

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