Townies in worlds spawn with Asian names

This is still happening and some reports of this issue are 5 years old… I realize it’s not the most game-breaking bug, but I would rather not have to spend so much time deleting 80% of Japanese sims from my game because I want an actual spectrum of diversity, not just one single ethnicity. To clarify, the Asian names as mentioned in the initial report are specifically Japanese. I would love to find, say, a Korean sim, but it has never happened.

Also, I’ve noticed that the one world where this DOESN'T happen is Henford on Bagley. There must be some world-specific determiner for which names/ethnicities will spawn, and it’s only working correctly in a couple worlds. The result is that newly-generated active career coworkers, bartenders, and university roommates, to name a few, are almost all Japanese.

I’ll add here that the game does seem to generate sims with Indian/Middle Eastern (City Living), Polynesian (Island Living), and southeast asian (For Rent) names at a reasonable frequency, so the issue is only with Japanese names/sims. To reproduce, let the game generate NPCs as Uni roommates in Britechester, active career employees in Get to Work, or bartenders or paparazzi in any world.

I totally have this problem too and it is a big reason why I have started emptying out all houses in my towns and making it so no sims can move into them. And then deleting all the families. There are so many Ito households in my game it was unreal. It is like most everyone has Asian names even if they do not look like and are not part of an Asian household. I do feel this is happening with a couple of other cultures as well, just not to the extent as the Asian. I have no problem with other cultures but when all the obviously white and black people have primarily Asian names, I started using mccc to click them and rename them because it was so annoying. Now that I am playing a clean install and mod free it is just an ugh problem. Not the worst of problems so I hadn't thought to complain about it yet until I saw this post. 

In russian language it's only an only russian names. That sucks

I had this bug. I think my sim married one of those npcs. I love Asian and Japanese culture but diversity is important, and sometimes the name doesn't match the ethnicity. So I'm glad it's on laundry list.

Me too and yes it is. Only in my game, I swear 98% of npcs have the Asian names. I am sure my estimate isn't accurate but I do not feel like it is far off. I can't imagine how they can improve this system but I think in this instance we can forgive racial profiling for the sake of npc names making some kind of sense lol. 

Townies will now have more diversity in their names.

Fixed in patch 1.116.202/2.14
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