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5th Gen Do you think The name 'Black and White, is Racist?

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Excuse me? What makes you think that the names 'Black' and 'White' are pointing to people with darker skin or are lighter in skin complexion? Meh, I don't wanna start a flamefest. So I am going to keep it simple. I do not believe that the names of the new generation, is not racists, unless you are very sensitive and take offence to little things.
 
This is not racist, like, not at all.
Because in the first place, we shouldn't call someone by the "skintone" they have. We shouldn't say : "Hey look, a Black person" or "Hey, look, a White person". We're all humans now, aren't we ? *sigh*

Black for Dark
White for Light

This is all I have to say.
 
What makes you think the name is racist? why people really sensitive to bad thing? it is actually the reverse of it, because both version is equal. Neither have exclusivity against the other. Stop this, for our sake or the version might be changed.
 
no, i don't, and anyone that mentions it possibly being racist is racist themselves for thinking of it.
 
Nah...I mean, the same thing could be argued about "red" and "yellow"; I highly doubt that the intention was to cause a mass amount of racial debates xD
In the end, they're just colours. No need to link them to anything else.
 
It'd be racist if it was titled Blacks and Whites.
 
Pokémon Ranger ✩ Moriarty said:
Agreed. It's not racist. I dunno if they've given the black/white reason in interviews anywhere (I'm waay behind on rumours/facts for these games XD) but to me it refers to Ying and Yang.
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This, exactly. When I heard the names of the games for the games, these were my initial thoughts, in order:

1) "Hmm, not very original names."
2) "They must be referring to Yin and Yang."
3) "The American versions will have different names regardless." >_>

I don't think they're racist, but I knew from the start that a small group of people would think that, the original poster here included.
 
"They must be referring to Yin and Yang."
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Probably. Or they're just running out of ideas :P
 
Alakazam17 said:
This, exactly. When I heard the names of the games for the games, these were my initial thoughts, in order:

1) "Hmm, not very original names."
2) "They must be referring to Yin and Yang."
3) "The American versions will have different names regardless." >_>

I don't think they're racist, but I knew from the start that a small group of people would think that, the original poster here included.
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Note that Black and White shall be the names of the English versions apparently (so says the us site anyways). Probably because the names aren't racist as everyone said. -_-
 
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They are just colours.

Plus I can't see any kind of intelligent discussions coming from here.
 
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