Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25184427-20140722165407/@comment-6383956-20140726131026

Okay, I guess I didn't articulate the point very well.

It can't be a world without isms if ther aren't other cultures for people to be prejudiced against. He didn't build a world without isms, he built a monocultural world. That's not helpful to anyone's representation (even though Jeff claims that's the reason he built the world the way he did.)

People do assimilate (especially teenagers) but if all your characters are 100%, fully assimilated into the same culture then there's zero point in claiming you have no prejudice in the world you created. You haven't given a chance to show that at all -- so if it's true, it's yet another part of the canon Jeff Davis created that we only know about because he gives interviews and is a terrible writer. It's not like everyone assimilates perfectly. Melissa could drop some Spanish words in her dialogue sometimes, or maybe Danny could have some sort of Hawaiin charm he wears all the time (costuming is a GREAT way to show very minor clues about cultural diversity that I have not seen taken advantage of at all.)

LadyX, there were black people in Scotland by the late Middle Ages -- in fact, Scotland had a king with African heritage. I don't know about Ireland, but I would absolutely believe that there were black people there and that some of them may have been druids (the druids were, to my knowledge, the most accepting group of people in Ireland!) So I don't find it that odd or unrealistic. My problem is just that the only POC who have a culture aside from basic upper/middle class white cisgender American are still given a predominantly white culture -- it's just another opportunity to include more actual diversity that Jeff Davis was like "yeah, but what if, instead, we didn't? That's genius!" :P