Who do you play as?? (Race and Gender wise)
I'm really curious if it's just me. I'm a 23 year old Black female simmer. And I've been mostly making and playing families of color with focus on black males. For example, I'm currently playing with ...
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I know I'm walking on a thin ice now, with answering here. I'm very pale and getting sunburnt after 10 minutes in the sun, so I tend to play mostly the latin type sims with their healthy looking skin, while I'm looking more like a corpse or drained out from a vampire. In my usual gameplay I don't care about the skin color from the sims. If they have good traits, then they are the perfect match for my sim, who was looking for a partner. I create PoC and play them like my white sims too, there is no difference between, they get the highranked job and leadership in a community, the best education for the children and high quality food. I don't like it when my sims suffer too long with the red bars.
Unfortunately I haven't much asian looking sims in my game, because they barely exist in my society, so I don't have much role-model about them. And I refuse to create them after typical stereotype image they were pulled over, because I know many of these poor asian people are mistreated, misused and are hold in a work-slavery for western companies for more profit. That's a situation which makes me angry.
However (now the thin ice-part) in my current gameplay, a decade challenge based on the history of my country, I have to create a lot of white-looking sims or have to whitening sims, because almost all my npc were created as PoC from my game. That simply doesn't fit for a white society from 1910, where PoC were seen as exotic (to say this in the nicest words from then). And especially the university addon is very immersionbreaking when my Sim has to use computers in a modern-looking environment and all his fellow students and clubmembers are PoC. A few sims, or even the half would be okay for me, but not all, that's not what can be called diversity when everyone has the same skintone. However in a few decades later this will be no problem anymore, and I'm more than happy when I don't have to change the skincolor from my sim-npcs ever again. It cost too much time and it is annoying, and it just felt wrong to me.
Unfortunately I haven't much asian looking sims in my game, because they barely exist in my society, so I don't have much role-model about them. And I refuse to create them after typical stereotype image they were pulled over, because I know many of these poor asian people are mistreated, misused and are hold in a work-slavery for western companies for more profit. That's a situation which makes me angry.
However (now the thin ice-part) in my current gameplay, a decade challenge based on the history of my country, I have to create a lot of white-looking sims or have to whitening sims, because almost all my npc were created as PoC from my game. That simply doesn't fit for a white society from 1910, where PoC were seen as exotic (to say this in the nicest words from then). And especially the university addon is very immersionbreaking when my Sim has to use computers in a modern-looking environment and all his fellow students and clubmembers are PoC. A few sims, or even the half would be okay for me, but not all, that's not what can be called diversity when everyone has the same skintone. However in a few decades later this will be no problem anymore, and I'm more than happy when I don't have to change the skincolor from my sim-npcs ever again. It cost too much time and it is annoying, and it just felt wrong to me.
