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"Pokémon - Racist?"

I've been thinking about this for a while now and I've realised one thing about the Pokémon games. There is no ethnic diversity in the games.

Surely there should be more then white people in the Pokémon world. So far, I've explored three of those worlds, Hoenn, Johto and Kanto and not a single dark skinned face amoungst the lot.

They keep using the phrase, "We all live in a Pokémon World!" Surely the world of Pokémon would have more mixed races.

I can understand that it might be difficult to put a dark skinned player on the GBA game, but I also think it's sending the wrong message. A world with Pokémon is peaceful. And this peaceful world has no ethnic diversity.

See what I mean?

What do you think?

You're thinking of Mars Attacks with the old song, "When I'm calling you..ooo.oooo.ooooo...oooo etc"

Wasn't it music that killed them? Or am I thinking of Mars Attacks..

Just a little off-topic here :)

Aye - they were brown and were about the size of a bear with large tentacles.

They also travelled the Earth via tripod machines and farmed humans for blood.

That is, until their unexpected demise... (Don't want to give spoilers away to anyone who may be intellectual in this forum who may want to read it - note, the book is only 55p off Amazon)

Darwock wrote:
> It was HG Wells, not Orwell... and from what I recall, they were
> green!
BROWN NOT GREEN!!!

tphi wrote:
> Darwock wrote:
> It was HG Wells, not Orwell... and from what I recall, they were
> green!
>
> Eeep.. I think you're right. And I studied that recently.. a few
> people actually committed suicide after turning it on half way
> through and thinking it was a news bulletin describing a marsian
> invasion of Earth.
>
> Dumb Americans?
they were BROWN martians

DiscoDexy wrote:
> I suppose you have a point there...
> But if you look at the cartoon, thers that Brock fella...
...Who has the worst hairdo in the world...

...Who has the worst hairdo in the world...

Mav wrote:
> Why does everyone have to be so politically correct?
>
> If you do that, we also need the protagonist to be 75 and in a
> wheelchair. Just so we don't discriminate old or disabled people.

Don't forget the drag queens and women who trip over their own breasts.

Darwock wrote:
> It was HG Wells, not Orwell... and from what I recall, they were
> green!

Eeep.. I think you're right. And I studied that recently.. a few people actually committed suicide after turning it on half way through and thinking it was a news bulletin describing a marsian invasion of Earth.

Dumb Americans?

It was HG Wells, not Orwell... and from what I recall, they were green!