Forum: OT


Subject: Racism in Poserland

biggert opened this issue on Mar 14, 2004 ยท 46 posts


biggert posted Sun, 14 March 2004 at 10:50 AM

Attached Link: http://secure.daz3d.com/shop.php?op=itemdetails&item=876

its interesting......even in PoserDom ethnocentrism and racism exists....Mein Gott! ....heh...what is this world coming to? OK...when you market software around the world, why would you put goods in categories like "Ethnic"? for example, say i market my Poser characters, accessories, etc. through DAZ (brokered) and they're all what "normal people" would call Ethnic (example a Japanese clothing or character). OK, now suppose i'm a Japanese DAZ customer and i mosey on to DAZ3D.com looking for stuff....then i come across a Japanese character by typing "Ethnic" in the site's search engine (for example, see the description in the link)... OK...heres the point to this-----> If i was born in Japan and am 200% Japanese, and i am looking at this website FROM Japan....why would i consider this character to be ethnic? from whose perspective? its like passing off anything that isnt White America/European as "ethnic"....if i am a Japanese customer living in Japan why would i search for a Japanese Samurai Character by checking out the "Ethnic Section" or tying "Ethnic" in a search engine of a US-based website, which markets goods worldwide? A Samurai would definitely not be ethnic to me since im Japanese and living in Japan, right? Would a McDonald's in Japan be considered "ethnic food" by Japanese? This is like droping a White Man in the middle of Deep Dark Africa and he goes "What are all these Black Minorities doing here? Theres too many of em!" Now, thats real comedy right there. ...interesting....