(08-03-2015, 02:26 AM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: This is a game that literally has refugee camps for certain types of people. There are story NPCs (aka Raubahn) who are famous for overcoming the racial issues in their cities. I think Sounsy posted a tidbit from 1.0 on how it was a big deal that the Gladiator's guild decided to allow highlanders to compete.It wasn't "highlanders" but "Ala Mhigans". The majority are highlanders, but that's never been the point.
Miqo'te in Gridania are often seen as a bunch of forest cat poachers, hyur in Ishgard are treated as lowborn, and all over you see racism against the beast tribes.
Racial tensions are EXPLICITY built into the lore, and much of it is quite nasty. I'm not saying anyone has to play an unrepentant racist, but to act like they don't exist is rather silly. If you want to play an open minded character that doesn't worry about race, then that's fine, more power to you. Just be aware your character is an exception (likely a positive one) and not the norm.
Also, you forgot about Duskwights in Gridania. I know they've been dethroned by the Au Ra but they were kind of in pole position of getting kicked in the junk for who they are prior.
The thing with accepting that racism is super-widespread and everywhere is that... beyond WHM/DRK 50+ and LNC/ARC1-30, and Ishgard MSQ (still think it's a class thing more so than a race thing on this part), there's just barely any mention of it. We already have several key triggers to change dialogue, you'd think they'd go out of their way to create racist-y dialogue for various races (duskwights in particular) but they deliberately chose to not do that.
Not saying it doesn't exist (most casual one I've seen were midlanders calling highlanders Roes or insisting they had Roe ancestry causing strife over at Buscarron's Druthers) but most are far more occupied with getting their base needs fulfilled than getting a hate-on over whoever doesn't look like them.
First food and shelter, then racism, kinda deal.
