"stilljustme2;c-17612248" wrote:
"Flexono1;c-17611848" wrote:
You are definitely right.
It seems that society views diversity=black, and kind of forgets that other minorities or PoC exist. If they really care about diversity, they would champion adding customisation that extends beyond black aesthetics
I actually tend to create more Latinx characters, specifically Latinos (male), because where I grew up I had a lot of Latinx friends, and later co-workers. (I'm your typical white bread old lady, BTW.) I think it's more of an inadvertent racism than anything blatant or even covert. "Never attribute to malice what can equally attributed to stupidity" (or ignorance).
My Sims are nothing like my current life. They're usually married (I'm now widowed since early May), they have nice houses (I'm an apartment dweller), they have good jobs (I'm retired), they have a lot of money (I'm on a fixed income)...sure, my Simself looks like me (maybe a little heavier since I've been losing weight) but her life is a lot different. I play my Sims not to represent myself as I am, but to play the "what if" game: what if I had married someone different, what if my husband and I had had kids, what if I'd become a famous writer, etc. I don't need an exact replica of myself. And the Sims world is a utopia of sorts; there's no racism, no sexism, no homophobia. You can have a Sim who is dirt-poor, then one day they win the lottery and get a million Simoleons, or you could just motherlode them that much money and freerealestate them into a mansion. :D Or you could play the Landgraabs, move them into a container house in Evergreen Harbor, take away their money and their jobs and make them start from scratch...oh, and give them screaming toddler triplets to deal with. :o
Sorry for your loss. It is hard to lose any family member especially a spouse. I never liked the Landgraabs personally. But yes I get wanting to represent your own life and an imaginary life. I am a lot more evil towards my Sims while in real life I work for the community. I do like having that range of storytelling.
Anyways I fully support having multiple races in the game. I'm mixed raced myself including Native American. I made an Iroquois Sim and a longhouse in the Sims 4 who is married to an alien disguised as a Canadian French Sim with the upgrowth challenge, so they are living off the grid in the 1800s. The cell phones kind of kill the storytelling with it, but I try and enjoying the family of five toddlers and a dog.
