Personally, I think the major problem is - somewhere along the way in our sims' journey we stopped inviting the sims' world into ours, and started imposing our world into theirs.
Is there such a thing as an African American Sim? Or a Spanish Sim? They certainly don't speak Spanish. How much of our reality can we impose on a world of fantasy before that world isn't about fantasy anymore but instead becomes a graphic representation of our very own lives.
Also, this is a prime example of a one sided argument. If we are going to create an argument over the sims not representing our world of reality, with the current argument being about race, then lets address as well the opposite side of the coin.The idea of vampires being in the sim world but not in ours. Where's our green aliens? The blue people? The mermaids?
Yes, the sim world is missing a lot that we have here in our world. But our world is missing ideas that come naturally to the sim world as well. Maybe it's a good thing the sims don't have a voice of their own because they might accuse us of being racist for not having blue people.
I blame technological advancement over the years for allowing for this argument. With graphics getting better and better, and the tools to manipulate things more to our preference improved, it was just a matter of time before someone somewhere got their hands on a sims CAS and tried to actually create "themselves". Once we discovered we could do exactly that.... create ourselves in CAS, the game then became more about us and our world, and less about the sims and the sims world.
And here we are today reading a blog about EA/Maxis being accused of racism because the sims don't look like us.
