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Video Games and Representation (Games that have been overly racist…

- - - - You have the choice of who you wanna play as (Neo Nazi, Skinhead, or Klansman). The Main objective is to go around the map and cleanse the world by killing all African Americans, Mexicans, and ending with jews and killing the Israeli prime Minister Ariel Sharon. IN the black are resembled as monkeys. When they are killed they make gorilla sounds, Also their face has the structure of a monkey, Mexican have a huge sombrero and only say "I need to take a Siesta", and Jew in rabbit costume who shout "Oy Vey!"
- - - - Hair Textures
        
        We predominantly see straighter hair styles and textures in character creation.
        
        Hair texture plays a significant role in someone's cultural and ethnic identity
      - Skin Tone
        
        Lighter skin tones are often taken into consideration more and are therefore balanced and lit better by game designers than darker skin tones.
        
        There is a history of this lack of consideration in film and photography.
        
        "When, in the 1980s, Kodak film—which was originally balanced against lighter skin tones—finally modified its film stock to be more sensitive to the brown and red ranges of the spectrum, it was to satisfy furniture manufacturers who complained their wood grain wasn't showing up." - Black Skin Is Still A Radical Concept In Video Games
      - Face Structure
        
        The paper doll effect
        
        "We don't want it to feel like a paper doll...Like you took the nose off of one character and stuck it on another. It's very important that our technology behind the scenes is meshing all of those pieces together in a way that actually represents real facial anatomy." - Lyndsay Pearson, Executive Producer on The Sims
  - - - Dragon Age II (2011)
        
        Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014)
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO4ocDe5nFM&t=235s
- - - - Attributes
        
        When you look at the attributes, they are pretty stereotypical. The strength speed starts at an overall 90.
- - - - Sims 1,2 and 3 represent people of color very poorly through its customization as previously mentioned.
        
        Sims 1
        
        Sims 2
        
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        Sims 4
        
        The Sims 4 is the only game in the series that has made drastic changes to show diversity. However, there is still a long way to go.
        
        The main focus in The Sims 4 was to improve the Create-A-Sim feature, adding more details to alter the appearance of a Sim with a less stereotypical ways of representing different ethnicities.
        
        Recently in a game update they have added hairstyles that represent people of color as well as different religions. However, these options are limited.
        
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        Players are now able to create many different face structures as well as facial features
      - Gender
        
        When players go to the Create-A-Sims mode the first choice they will be asked to make is between male and female.
        
        There are no other gender identities to choose from nor is there an option to not select a gender
        
        Clothing options were specifically targeted to its male or female characters
      - Skin Tones and Facial Structure
        
        Earlier in the game series, the options for skin tones were limited.
        
        Face shape and structure is extremely stereotyped for people of color
        
        There were only four options for skin tones until the Sims 3
      - Hair Styles and Textures
        
        Options for hair is predominantly straight with no textures