(07-27-2013, 06:49 PM)Callipygian Wrote: not an unrelated tribe from a previous and unrelated title in the Final Fantasy series.
Not what I'm saying. I'm saying the reason Miqo'te aren't tribal in-game while they are in the lore, isn't because "America's media would go crazy over it" or some such idea. There are plenty of highly accepted tribal themes in all forms of fiction and no one in America cares one way or the other. The real reason for the schism is probably because they half-assed the lore to make the race different from Hyur in more than just physical appearance. I'm not proposing FFXIV adopt the Rhonso. I was using that as an example of both a tribal race done correctly and a tribal theme that no one freaked out over. America isn't a giant Amish community, things like this are common in our games, movies, books, and television.
