![]() It would be insulting to the industry as a whole for someone to claim Taiwan’s tech industry has a sexism problem. Sales, engineering, PR, marketing, and so on. I’d even go as far as saying that women might outnumber men in the Taiwanese tech industry. I might be inclined to say racism was, but not sexism. I can say with the utmost level of assurance that sexism is absolutely not a problem for the tech industry in Taiwan. But I do work in the Taiwanese tech industry and have for several years. I’ve never actually worked in the American tech industry so I can neither confirm nor deny this claim. Or at least that’s what I’ve been told and led to believe for most of my life. It is difficult for women to get jobs in the tech industry. In the United States of America, the tech industry is bogged down by sexism. But now let’s actually talk about the real problems with this entire scenario.Ī big problem, which has only gotten worse over time, is that Americans tend to dictate the terms of reality to the rest of the world while ignoring the fact that their reality doesn’t apply to the rest of the world. Sure it’s an indie studio with only 12 core employees so it’s not a ton of people, but it’s still a flagrantly abusive level of power for someone I’ve never even heard of before to have as an unelected member of our society. A single person should not be able to make a tweet on behalf of all Black people, cause a viral outrage, and possibly end the careers of an entire studio of developers. There are a number of things that need to be unpacked here.įirst, let me start by saying social media influencers have too much power. And by person of color they meant Black person because obviously Asians don’t count as people of color. After the apology was given and accepted, the YouTuber followed up by making the claim/demand that all studios need to have a person of color in the room to ensure things like this don’t happen in the future. The YouTuber ultimately accepted the apology, once again on behalf of all of us Black people, acknowledged that they felt the developers, a group of Koreans with no history of African slavery or systemic racism against Black people, were sincere in their claim that they had no intention of offending Black people or trying to further stereotypes. They proceeded to post their opinion online and that opinion went viral ultimately causing the development studio to apologize profusely and promise to change the designs. But I know that they were offended specifically because of how this character design resembles Black stereotypes to them. I don’t know if they are or are not Black. Specifically they were offended on behalf of us Black people. But this YouTuber decided they were offended. And this world has not been confirmed to be our world. Again, these enemies have not been confirmed to be actual humans. Specifically they were offended by a specific group of humanoid enemies shown in the trailer. ![]() Soon after the PS5 Reveal presentation, some YouTuber, who I won’t name here, decided that they were offended by this trailer. ![]() I will probably even contact the developer and request a review copy. The game looks absolutely awesome and I’m looking forward to playing it. There are also humanoid, but not necessarily human, enemies found in the various lands you explore. These monsters include dragons, krakens, giant felines, and many other things. In this game, you explore different parts of the world (unconfirmed if it’s the real world or a made up one) and hunt monsters. Little Devil Inside was one of the trailers I liked most from the entire presentation. In fact, it was the topic of last week’s blog post. This game was shown during the PS5 Reveal presentation earlier this month. I mean actual Koreans born and raised in Korea. And by Korean I don’t mean Asian people living in America. Little Devil Inside is an upcoming indie game from a Korean developer called Neostream Interactive. So while I did not want to write this post, and had not originally planned to write it this week if at all, I felt it was important and necessary. But I will also not stand by and just let people, of any race including my own, spout off takes that are not only blatantly wrong but also detrimental to people of color in the long run. Whether it’s government, healthcare, or the games industry, I think infighting among special interest groups happens too often and always to the advantage of those fighting against change. ![]() I would argue infighting is one of the main reasons that so many groups with a seemingly common goal fail to accomplish real change within whatever context. As an African American, it does not make me happy to have to write a post like this at this time. ![]()
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