How is dahlia black?
Spoiler:
I have never seen a black person with blue eyes.
I've thought about this for a while before commenting, but I truly hope that they include more diverse races for NPCs, but I really hope that they don't give players the option to choose their skin color.
Here is why: How do all the Pokémon games start? The Professor asks if you're a boy or girl, right? Well, imagine a little kid playing this game (because, let's face it, that's who these games are primarily targeted towards) and being faced with the question "Are you white or black?" or "What color is your skin?"
Now, my girlfriend has 3 kids ranging from 9 - 13 and only last year did they find out what black people were. Sure, african american kids go to their school, but we never taught them to draw distinctions between races of people, so they grew up just thinking everyone was the same, which is a pretty rad way to grow up, if you ask me.
If the new Pokémon games taught kids to draw racial distinctions, I think it'd just be a bit of a bummer. People are people and color really shouldn't matter.
When it comes down to it, it's just a game, so have fun with it and try not to take it too seriously.
p.s.
I'm very brown.
Well I THOUGHT that maybe some serious discussion on the lack of variety in race in the Pokemon universe would occur. But whatevskis. Can't expect THAT mature of a discussion to occur on PC.
I don't know why you people are still posting, this post wins the entire thread. Case closed. Also, why does it matter what race Dahlia belongs to? She's a character in a video game.
Isn't Lt. Surge like the only American in the game(s)?
I swear a lot of npcs talk about other countries and stuff, and there was a french guy on the S.S Anne, so who knows, maybe we will see more nationalities in BW.
In case you havent noticed
Pokémon has never had BLACK people in it,
Do you think tehre gonna put black people in ,
Pokémon Black and White?
I think they should
its really racist to be honest!
Isn't Lt. Surge like the only American in the game(s)?
I swear a lot of npcs talk about other countries and stuff, and there was a french guy on the S.S Anne, so who knows, maybe we will see more nationalities in BW.
Really? I'm guessing he was in silver too (dumb question)? I never saw him or maybe I just don't remember.Yeah, there's also that guy in Gold who speaks bad English saying he is from another country. It is never said where though.
It is very rare to see a black person in Japanese anime, whereas it is commonplace in Anglophonic shows. It would be good to see more black people in Japanese shows/games- even though it's probably rare because obviously most people in Japan are East Asian. But it's a different country- not a different world!!
Guys, why do you care so much about people's skin colour/origins? Their skin colour doesn't say anything about them, except where they originate from. They may look black or whatever, but the actual charatcers may have been born in Japan. Heck, I was born in England, but you'd never guess it from looking at me. All this nonsense about who's who is stupid. They're just people. Who cares if Pokémon has no black people? Who cares if they have no brown people? It's just a game, and skin colour doesn't define who you are.
It's never black, it's ~tanned~
Brock and Phoebe are ~tanned~
Honestly, I could care less. They aren't exactly Caucasian, or Asian, or Indian, or whatever.
They're just a race in an animated world. Do we need to bring racism into that?
I agree with you 100%.
It's like asking the question: Why aren't elf people/gingerbread people/aliens/pixies in B&W?
Gamefreak's universe = Gamefreak's race