More representation of indigenous cultures?

"OceanbornAngel13;c-17729346" wrote:

"GrimlyFiendish;d-983928" wrote:
The other day I noticed one of the new necklaces for female Sims has a colour option that is the same as the Australian Aboriginal flag, it got me wondering if perhaps there should be more indigenous representation in the Sims, or if it was something that was just too much risk of getting way wrong (like having Sims wearing first nation head dressed Coachella style, or female Sims being able to play a digeridoo).

What do others think, is more indigenous representation something EA should strive for, or is there just too much of a risk that it wouldn't be done right and would end up being tokenistic or insulting to indigenous cultures? Is this something better left to the CC and Mod creators?

Here's a thought you might want to consider. What about creating an indigenous culture neighborhood on your own? Seriously...instead of waiting for other people to do it for you, just recreate a neighborhood full of indigenous Sims you have created yourself. Seriously...this lack of personal motivation to do things for yourselves...is this a generational thing? Why are you wasting time when you can be doing this yourself? How about a little self sufficiency and imagination here?

Ah, okay. Well first of all I'm not insisting that EA do anything, as a matter of fact it would be my personal preference that individual gamers do utilise things like CC and Mods to create their own indigenous representation if they so wished (I certainly wouldn't trust a US centric game company, whose main motivation is profit, to represent indigenous cultures). I was simply curious what other people thought, given EA's apparent emphasis on diversity.

In terms of my own gameplay, I actually prefer to do a lot of things myself rather than just buying an endless round of packs to fill in whatever gameplay holes may or not be missing.