March 17, 2009 8:14:43 PM
I think the fact that people are taking the time to discuss this, and much more eloquently than I am capable of, is awesome.Let's take the Jewish Zombies a step further, as a parallel to the tribal savages section in RE5 say there is a section where you are forced to lock the Jewish Zombies in a room and gas them. This sort of thing isn't at all uncommon in games and while I can't point to any particular game that has employed this off the top of my head I do remember games employing this mechanic.It's hard to argue that something like that would not be culturally loaded. If you were not aware that Jews were gassed during the holocaust then you wouldn't even notice, but if you were it might (and I would argue should) make you intensely uncomfortable.That's not to say such things should not be in games, but one would hope that they could be treated in a more culturally sensitive way and provide some sort of social commentary beyond simply being cliched and stereotypical stages.Sorry for the stream of consciousness style rambling but that's just the way I roll.
March 17, 2009 6:41:33 AM
Skrattybones,I don't think it's so much the fact that they're black people, but the way they are portrayed, ESPECIALLY in what I've seen (though not played) of the section where they're wearing traditional dress and using spears and shields.This does in fact remind me of a recent BBC documentary I saw where rich white people with colour video cameras would force people to dance around in traditional dress in the first half of this century even though that was not at all a daily occurrence.What if we had Jewish zombies? Would they still just be "Zombies"? Or would recent history make it an uncomfortable experience to shoot them? Personally I think it would.
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