All 'races' in FFXIV are mix and matches of features in real world races with an anime slant, and are not designed to be a direct representation of any single particular race. You can pretty much get this by actually looking at the stock facial features (ignore skin color for the moment) of the races and even with tweaking, you cant get a 1:1 "this is an European/Asian/African/Etc" person. You can get close, but things will be slightly off or 'mismatched'. Now, throw in the fact that virtually all races can come in the almost entire gamut of skin colors, and you can end up with interesting combinations as a result. You can drive this point home by looking at teh lore of all the races. You cant really pin it to any specific ethnicity/nationality. Theyre all mixes of a few cultural elements from different societies.

Im down for more hairstyles, but the assertion there's a 'race' issue is simply a case of "looking for racism." If they had teh standard 'Nordic Male/Female', 'Asian male/female', and etc except African, yeah then you got a case. But since theyre mix and matched features (again beyond skin color cause a black person isnt just black skin), that are also reigned in by a style that anime-in-nature, yeah, its not an issue of race so much as just a lack of options. Something people are all for. People want more hairstyles.