Another problem, I believe, for all races, is that they let the negative stigmas stay and don't fight them. I know a lot of black people who like rap and wear this ghetto stuff, and then there's Cody. He's as country as can be, and hates that crap. But when black pride comes around, he suddenly knows every Little Wayne song and wears his chains while talking about getting tattoos in white ink so you can actually see him. Yeah....Menegrothx wrote:In most European countries there arent that much black people. And in many of them, a large number of them are first generation immigrants, or children of them who arent old enough to make a cultural impact yet, so they dont really have much of an influence on popular culture so far. Quite many game studios are nowadays in Eastern Europe - the area with the smallest amount of third world immigration in Europe. And Japan goes with out saying. Cant really comment on how the situation is in Australia.neilencio wrote:
I'm not saying that there are no other representatives of african-american pop culture other than the stereotypical ones, I'm sure there are more diverse choices out there, but the ones that are more exposed to caucasians are the stereotypical ones
So many of the current game developers outside of US got their picture of black people almost exclusively from American mainstream media. There are/were more diverse white characters in many of the shows and movies that I recall watching. And by that I mean that white people are jocks, nerds, goths, skaters etc. They all have their individual identity. Black people are just black people. You dont see black people listening to heavy metal, playing video games or doing science. They just do black stuff and listen to black music and they all look the same.
That is the picture that I got from American movies and TV shows when I was growing up, and I doubt I am the only one. Sure there were some black characters that stood out, but generally there was just "that black guy" with out much of a personal identity.
I think this is just as much of a problem of poor self representation as it is of poor representation by others. A lot of black comedies and black pride movies I have seen focus on the stereotypes, and amplify them. Like, say, Don' Be A Menace. For those who have seen it, you know what I mean. Similarly, look at Machete. That focused on stereotypes of whites and hispanics, amlifying both, with a little bit of overzealous asian culture from Seagall. It seems great for them to have pride, but that's not the way to go about it.
