Jan 01 1970

Resident Evil 5 is Not Racist, Says Anthropologist

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“I think people are looking too quickly to be able to jam that label onto it,” said Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent when asked about the alleged racism in Resident Evil 5.
Videogamer.com recently sat down with Bowman and played through the first three levels of the game to ascertain his expert opinion on whether Capcom’s game exploits stereotypical racist images of African villagers.
“I don’t find this very racist,” Bowman says of the game. “I think what they’re trying to do is make a setting of terror, of anxiety.”
Bowman also tackles the claims of detractors who cite one particular scene as the basis for their argument:
We could go back to the mention of that one scene you claim that people
were using as a sign of racism, where supposedly a blonde white woman
is being dragged into a second floor house to be [...]

Original post by Earnest Cavalli

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