south carmain wrote:^ yeah I was just making a joke, hong kong was a pretty rough city in the 80's or so I was told, the fact they made a lot of the npc's look ugly was probably to portray a working class area and promote the gritty atmosphere, it would look out of place to put people who look like they live in the suburbs walking around the gritty high rises of kowloon
It is kinda true, though. So many of those NPC's do look proper mashup. I would think that they were probably going for a more gritty/working class feel to the Chinese though, as the game is also quite clearly packed with an incredible amount of love for China and Chinese culture too. Maybe the team were just trying to represent how they felt the people of HK differed in appearance to Japanese, but got a little carried away?^I used to think it was really bad but it seems most Japanese aren't really racist they are just not used to foreigners so are a little ignorant and us westerners qualify a lot of ignorant things as being racist, that's the way I see it, their far right nationalist groups are far from as violent as ours anyway even if they are loud shouting "white pig go home
I don't know why, but that vid did make me laugh. However, racism can be quite a serious issue in Japan at times, it may be because they aren't used to as multi cultural a society as we are, but it still doesn't excuse it. The tension between China and Japan is also quite a thorny issue, what with Japan still refusing to apologise for some truly horrendous war crimes (I mean seriously, is it that hard to just apologise!). And from what I've read, the mayor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara sounds like a bona fide bigot and all round nutter. Yet he's been mayor since 1999! As well as being a denier of the Nanking massacre who believes the Chinese made it all up as propaganda (which is completely insane), he just sounds like an all round racist, sexist and homophobe. Here are some choice quotes from him courtesy of wiki
Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans — I don't mean African-Americans — who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent
old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin
and to those who criticized him for making the statement, he called
tyrant… old women
It's almost funny. I mean, he makes Boris Johnson look like mother Theresa. How the hell has he remained in a mayoral role for so long!
dear god!
