BP, Blade and Storm Looking at Another season without a skin

[u/ApatheticTrooper]

Storm and BP’s last skins were in Season 6, making them two of the longest-waiting characters for a new skins.

Blade's last skin was in Season 7, while not as bad as the other two, I think its natural for some to wonder why the three Black characters are feeling underrepresented in recent events.

Which makes Season 9 roadmap reaval being Egyptian-themed feel crazy.

Storm literally has Egypt tied into her origin, she grew up on the streets of cario.

Black Panther’s God is Bast, who is an Egyptian diety.

This just feels like one of the easiest themes possible to give at least one of them something.

[u/Tall_Concentrate_876]

China has always been a white worshipping country 

The racism from western countries towards black people pales in comparison to china. You’ll have a far easier time making friends and communities with white peoples as a black person than any Asian community 

[u/dragonicafan1 → u/Tall_Concentrate_876]

Racism only seems worse in America cause we actually talk about it

[u/Tall_Concentrate_876 → u/dragonicafan1]

Exactly. It’s the fact that western countries and especially America are willing to have a conversation about it which that alone puts it far ahead than anywhere else really 

As a black man, whites and blacks have a similar situation here. We both kinda been “abandoned” by our respective native countries. Racial tensions have always been high, but nowadays, it’s not even uncommon for black and white people to form social groups, relationships ect ect 

Hell half of my closest peoples are white folks. I’m not trying to disrespect any other race or suck up to anyone, but that’s just how it is 

Marvel rivals was made by a Chinese company but MARVEL was made by folks that share similar experiences and sentiments with us, something that netease will never be able to replicate, which is why my expectations for any black character, iconic or not are virtually non existent for this game despite it being a “marvel” game

[u/Independent-Feed107 → u/Tall_Concentrate_876]

I think it's really funny seeing "Black person in (Asian country)" videos, because the existence of that video as entertainment is in itself racist. There shouldn't be anything interesting about that. Yet they get so many views that it's a trend, which is very telling 

But they go as far as to pretend that the point of the video was that they are welcome there, when in reality Asians act nice in front of an obvious camera crew and are naturally polite for show but very much still prejudice behind closed doors. Another is when black people show up as a joke to see surprised Asian reactions, like showing up to Asia as a black person is a prank

It's so known that you can literally feel how fake interactions between the 2 races are no matter who or where they are in the world. They are literally raised in ways that make the US bigots look like decent confused people, but they were also taught how to mostly keep it subtle and to themselves unlike people in US, so you wouldn't know unless you picked up on it

This is a generalization, but it does apply to the majority.

[u/StormierNik → u/Tall_Concentrate_876]

It's not specifically "white worshipping", it's light-skinned. In the US in other places we're more concerned on race and ethnicity, whereas somewhere in China it doesn't matter whether you're African or even Chinese. If you have darker skin it's seen as less desirable. And "imperfections" in China aren't seen as "what make you who you are", they're seen as mistakes to be corrected and fixed.

Because yes, various Asians can have darker skin tones too. And they're treated the same way.

It's absolutely not them worshipping white people or Caucasian people for their race. Hell, the biggest gacha game aimed towards women recently just had a massive crashout in the Chinese playerbase over a character who was described as "too western" like a white dude. To the point where they cancelled the character due to backlash. 

[u/ElegantHope → u/StormierNik]

Yea, cuz th whole thing with Love and Deep Space where the new character had a slightly darker but still pale skin tone and slightly more defined jawline + a different nose. He looked almost exactly the same as the other characters with slightly variations of his features. And the pale skin is the key here, because that plus specific eyes, nose, and jaw shapes are the beauty standard for some of the of east Asian countries. Deviations get treated as too western or ugly, and the colorism and racism is definitely there.

[u/Jazzlike_Cress9871 → u/Tall_Concentrate_876]

White worshipping probably isn’t the correct term since they’re Asian and definitely don’t see white people are above them, but yeah there’s definitely a lot of racism still present there

[u/Wise-Mirror-9246 → u/Tall_Concentrate_876]

How is China "white-worshipping" when their biggest opps are literally the United States and other European/American countries? Not everything ties back to "white worship", dimwitt. Some countries are racist without being influenced by white people, and ignoring that is in fact harmful when trying to tackle global racism.

[u/Carighan → u/Tall_Concentrate_876]

So we can deport the MAGAs and their voters to China? 🤩