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One interesting thing I've noticed is how rampant stereotypes are within the different races of Azeroth. Here's what I see:

Goblins: Huge noses, all bankers, say things like, "time is money friend." They have a bunch of different cities (or TRIBES) yet are all united - They are totally supposed to be Jewish.

Orcs: Okay, former slaves. Quite muscular and athletic. Some are still quite uneducated and ignorant about the ways of the world...and feel no need to advance past what they have been doing for years, while others have embraced education and human culture (therefore becoming leaders of their culture). Also, Thrall is banging Jaina (his trophy white woman) - Totally supposed to be black people.
Trolls: Jamaicans - too easy

squidgoat: They are supposed to be like Russian or Eastern European, right? Do they ever talk about Vodka and stuff...I feel like they do.

Humans: Imperialist, racist, suspicious. Have money, power, technology...sounds like white colonists (and maybe a bit of manifest destiny) to me.

Tauren: Native Americans, duh. Look at their totem polls.

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Am I missing any? I feel like there are more.

Also, don't think I'm being racist or anything, some of my best friends are white.

I think Squidgoats are supposed to be middle-easterns; specifically, Al Qaeda. The dance. Their hookahs. All the sheer and crap. They tried to fly their spaceship into Teldrasil... obvious 9/11 Parallel.

And BElfs are French. White people don't wanna be associated with the pussy French.

Ogres are also blacks for the obvious reasons.

Edit: I'm not being racist either. I love black people. I think everyone should own one.

Understood

jeluz?

i mean, that's an interesting theory and all, but i doubt blizzard sat in a conference room and said, "ok, in this next game, we need jews, french, blacks, arabs, and capitalist pigdogs. but we cant call them that."

Well maybe not to that extreme, but I do believe that Blizzard, and all game companies, craft their characters in a certain way to entice all people to play the game. It is a little more crucial in a game like wow. When you join a faction and subconsciously make those, possibly borderline racist, connections to your race in the game...you feel a sense of brotherhood with members of the race who are similar to you. This also brings the natural sense of pride for your race with it and, conversely, a sense of superiority, or even slight hatred, towards other races.

While I do not think it is necessarily a racist intention, I think it is a smart move for Blizzard to keep the game interesting. As we all know, wow has an enormous social aspect to it. And the "racism", as you describe it, ties make that game more interesting. It makes battles more epic, brotherhood bonds within the race strong, brings people deeper into the lore and history of their race, etc.

Wow could also be viewed as, and I just thought of this so its not a fleshed out idea, a way to overcome those racist connections. If they draw some vague similiarities to different races in the characters players can choose from...and then force everyone to work together against a common enemy (Arthas for example) then it is sort of like...breaking down the boundaries between races...working together...putting skin color aside...etc.

Again that is a theory in infantile stages and not thought out at all but just something that popped in.

...can you tell how busy I am today?

Clearly not. But perhaps it just sorta developed over time from the collective sub-conscious of the creators.

Also..BELFS = French people...never thought about it, but it makes so much sense now!

I'm starting to second guess Orcs being black. Thrall has a job... for now. Bum bum bummmm.

perhaps you're right. maybe it's along the same lines as how the asian Power Ranger was yellow, black was black, emo was blue, cheerleader was pink, green was...flute toting homo? etc. etc.

i just cant help but think that at least ONE of those races was in the conference room when they were discussing this. and was like, "lol r u srs guys?"

also, you're probably busier than i am. TOO BAD THOUGH. GET BACK TO WORK CIVILIAN. KEEP MY ARMY STRONG.

Who would you want on your basketball or football team, a bunch of orcs or a bunch of humans?

I rest my case!

No doubt. I'd take a team of primitive beasts to carry the humans to victory.

i think you're failing to see that for as many socially acceptable members of ANY race, there more than double "primitive beasts". for instance, yesterday i was driving through the shithole that is texas, and i stopped at a stoplight. it was raining ridiculously hard and i looked to my left to see a white guy in his orange mustang with aftermarket rims, aftermarket spoiler, bumping to crappy music while minutely adjusting his popped collar, gelled hair spikes, and reviewing his efforts in his mirror. he also had massive aviator sunglasses on. did i mention it was dark and rainy?

i laughed my ass off and shook my head, which he noticed. his retort to my insult was to rev his engine and look menacingly at me. you got it, dude. i'm sure as hell gonna race you in my '85 cadillac deville.

those types are just as much of a disgrace to my race, as any pants-sagging, rap-blasting, inconsiderate, convenience store robbing, african-americans are to their race.

Apparently some guy wrote his dissertation on this topic.

http://www.cjritter.com/dissertation/

I feel like there were very few people here who played when The Enclave played.

gnomes are grizzly bears. they seem cute and cuddly until you meet one in the woods and it eats your face.

or something. i think i'm doing this wrong.

Akina: bitch I will stab you in the face