Character Creation Has A Race Problem

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The key word in there is discrimination. Discrimination is any unfair or unjust treatment based on your race or gender, which covers all the more insidious forms of racism people like to pretend don't exist because it's not overt, aggressive racism. To assert there's no problem because there's no obvious hostility is not only wrong but incredibly narrow-minded. Exclusion (more or less the point being made here) whitewashing, lack of representation in the media - it all stems from the underlying, semi-subconscious current that one race/ type of beauty is more preferable or better than another... which is the most basic definition of racism.

Or it's an acknowledgement the majority of the Western world is Caucasian, therefore you will have a statistical leaning in that direction unless artificially altered. Attempting to insinuate racism where there isn't any only devalues the word itself. More people nowadays disregard racism, sexism and the like because they have been throw around so carelessly to describe if the slightest offense their meaning has lost significance. Or rather, people simply don't believe even genuine cases.

Racism and representation is a problem, whether you like it or not. Those affected by it do not have to honey their words or not bring it up to make you more comfortable, and the irony in your insistence that they do while calling them whiny and catty is incredible.

Few will argue otherwise. However when, "everything is racist; everything is sexist. And you need to call it all out!" You have the opposite effect: apathy. If everything is something, it holds less significance and people are equally less inclined to believe it.

All of that seems to be fine?

If not, why does anime and JRPGs often depict Caucasian looking characters? Is it racism, bias or Japan simply not actually seeing them as Japanese, White, Black or any other real world race? The former two are assumptions, by the way. The latter has been stated outright by numerous artists.