Bowman.

It is good to see this "controversy" through an anthropologist's perspective.

I'm an Anthropologist, and you are right. It doesn't, or at least shouldn't take one to figure this out. : )

Do we really need a professional to prove to these crowds just how stupid they really are?

I'm left wondering, who is still hanging around the "RE5 is Racist" camp?

Oh, and fuck those colonial powers. A bunch of pricks, i tell you.

I'd call him smart, but he said that there was Inuits and Walruses in Finland. But then again, maybe he just mistook it for Greenland?

You know, I wonder why it always seems people who accuse others or video games of racism are always Americans? I never hear South Americans, Europeans, Africans, Asians, or Australians bitch about racism in media as much as Americans.

It saddens me to think that people are willing to accuse a game of being racist by putting Africans in Africa. In all seriousness, it's accusations like these that prevent real issues from being taken seriously, and train kids to overreact to media that isn't necessarily racist. Even then, why should companies have to pussyfoot around these types of issues even if they aren't promoting a racist agenda? But besides that, my understanding of this issue was that the people calling ResE racist were a bit wrong in the head when it comes to identifying racial prejudice.

"You know, I wonder why it always seems people who accuse others or video games of racism are always Americans? I never hear South Americans, Europeans, Africans, Asians, or Australians bitch about racism in media as much as Americans."
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I see things all of the time regarding things being racist in England. Also, if you criticize Jews in any way in Germany you're pretty much labeled a Nazi. People are actually arrested and spend YEARS in prison for simply saying that the Holocaust didn't happen. I wouldn't call that being any better than labeling things as racist.

The main reason why, however, you hear about all of this racism talk in America and not other countries is because other countries do not care to be PC. Look at the populations of countries that aren't America and tell me that their population reflects a diverse nation. They don't. In fact, in some Asians countries the native population is given PREFERENTIAL treatment for things like employment, which means they cater to those who are of the native race first.

There is also the issue of the Constitution and how people do not care about it unless they can use to to make the opposing party look bad. Political correctness is about limiting what people can discuss without any care for the fact that people have a First Amendment right.

Lastly, and maybe more importantly, the issues of everything being racist is used to divide people. If everyone realized that LEADERS are the ones who manipulate public opinion and decide who will be the next target, then maybe they would stop assuming everyone is racist and look to change things. People on the left are just used as pawns in this game because they are both guilt-ridden, and desperately want to prove how they are "the good whites." Only a truly racist mind sees race in everything.

Imagine if a child told you that their parent rubs their back for them when it is sore, and you're immediate thought is that the parent is having sex with that child. Only a fucked up mind would think that, yet this is the same thing that goes on with cries of racism.

PS - I heard that everything changed with Obama, so you can all relax now. Everything is cool.

this is the kind of news you don't get on other video game sites, thanks jim

Of course it's racist, everyone knows Japan hates black people. The real question is why does it matter?

Controversy usually sells game, anybody else think Capcom is quietly pushing this into the forefront for more pub?

Plus, like Avenue Q says everyone is a little bit racist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc5ztwJvfUA

It's not racist but there's still the whole 'africa' thing. They said the game is set in Africa. That's a fucking continent. Raccoon city was a city and Spain is a country(but was located in some rural spanish village). I think it's important to differentiate between North Africa, South Africa, the horn of africa, swahili coastal and the guinea coastal regions since they are pretty different. Just as Spain is different from Germany. "welcome to africa"? give me a fuckin break.

Uh... trunxkam45? You do know that Raccoon City is a "Midwestern American city", Right? It's not in Spain. You're a couple thousand miles off target.
Resident Evil 4 takes place in Spain if I'm not mistaken.