Thursday, November 30, 2017

Latinos in Video Games

  During class last week, we learned that minorities were, like always, underrepresented but this time in video games. The only ethnic minority that is popular in video games are Asians because a lot of video games are created by Asian developers. 
  Despite being avid gamers, Latinos are the biggest minority that is severely being underrepresented in video games. The only Latino characters you see in a game are "typically appear as a non-playable character, obstacle to overcome, or simply part of the backdrop.” as per this article: https://medium.com/the-nerd-castle/d%C3%B3nde-est%C3%A1n-latino-characters-and-video-games-76b3441fe70. And while efforts have been made to represent more Latinos in these games, white and Asian characters are still the domineering groups to be playable characters than other minorities. 
  I would not call myself a gamer, I've only played two games on my boyfriend's PS4, but he has a lot of games and I've only seen 1 playable character that is Latino. Out of about 50 games, only 1 Latino character. The rest are white and Asian. 
  And this character is a villain. That's just sad. 

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