- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: LFC_FOREVER
Also, what happened to all the other countries??
Even though they are a world defence force the Marines are made up entirely of Americans, Australians and Mexicans.
What about Asia, Britain, Europe or Africa??
This really pissed me off as well. The UN marines basically are the US army right click save as. There isn't even a pretense at internationalism. The occasional hispanic in the ranks probably is due to the fact that hispanic Americans make up a larger proportion of the US military, and there is a token Australian.
We also have Seargent Shaft as the token black caricature, and he really only functions as comic relief.
I would chalk this up to Bungie being a bunch of suburban nerd white guys, but it doesn't get much whitee-er than Willhaven and CliffyB, and (human) minorities feature prominently in the Unrealverse. Heck, the default character in UT2004 multiplayer is a black guy (Jacob), the "flagship" character for Unreal is another (Malcom), and the three main characters in Unreal Championship II (Anubis, Sobek and Selket) are Arabs.
I don't even want to touch on the whole "East African Protectorate" issue, as historically "Protectorate" means the same thing as "Colony".
Is this as bad as all out Ringo-ism? No, but it's definetly leaning in that direction.