Ground2ChairMissile t1_jdho9aj wrote
Reply to comment by boxer_dogs_dance in There is no logical reason to exclude people of different races in a fictional universe that features dragons and magic by ToeNo5165
The kinds of people who complain about this usually aren't big on reading.
They prefer their books at 451 degrees.
boxer_dogs_dance t1_jdhoyqy wrote
Pratchett did diversity well in his depiction of Ankh Morpork. So did Guy Gavriel Kay in Lions of Al Rassan. I get annoyed when authors don't provide a reason for diversity, or a back story, unless the setting is an immigrant country like Australia or the US. But I am not going to publicly complain about it. It's just a pedantic nitpick in my head cannon.
Ground2ChairMissile t1_jdi97hc wrote
> I get annoyed when authors don't provide a reason for diversity
A wizard did it.
There, now you're all set for literally any book that doesn't feature 100% white people and also doesn't feel a need to provide an explanation for why.
IncidentFuture t1_jdhv2t1 wrote
It doesn't even need to be an immigrant country. Although mass immigration is obviously a cause. A lot of countries have different ethnic groups because of past migration and conquest.
Even in countries that people assume are homogenous, different areas have a different language used historically (if not currently) and cultural or ethnic\racial differences.
In their rush to have contemporary diversity in their setting they fail to consider why such diversity exists. Not because it cannot, but because interesting world building and stories come with answering why it's there.
sisharil t1_jdhxs4l wrote
>In their rush to have contemporary diversity in their setting they fail to consider why such diversity exists. Not because it cannot, but because interesting world building and stories come with answering why it's there.
This, this is it exactly.
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