Man, that's a great comment that overlooks a very important part of what I said. Here, I'll quote it for you. In my post, I very clearly stated:
Now, it's possible that reading the first sentence there, you could assume that all those heroes I mentioned having no problem identifying with were Mexican (LOL cause, there was a huge problem finding Mexican heroes in media.... it's still crazy difficult). That said, the second part of that quote expresses that having a Mexican "too" would have been nice. That "too" implies that the heroes alluded to in the first sentence were not Mexicans. To be honest, I'm not sure why I'm breaking down the language. I felt it was pretty darned self-evident, but here we are.
So, yeah, there it is. I stated quite clearly that I had no problem identifying with... umm... humans (LOL). I then mentioned a preference to see representation of my race IN ADDITION to other races (which, again, I had no problem doing).
Like, I don't get it. Did you just want to pretend I was the thing you wanted to argue against? So you twisted what I said so that it would fit your attack? Completely ignoring that I am not that thing you are trying to tear down. Completely ignoring that you seem to want me to be some sort of archetype of a hyper-reverse-racist. You're fighting phantoms.
Maybe.... I dunno, you need to look at yourself in the mirror and think about the sort of person you want to be, because I don't think it's quite what you imagined when you wrote your post.
the only problem with this thought process is that it's basis is still entirely predicated to a persons Self being mostly about race...
even if you do think everyone should see everyone and so on and so forth it still boils down to a very simplistic ideology of human beings = the color of their skin.
the question then is how deep the rabbit hole has to go before you or the example child in this theology feels like they themselves are being "represented" on screen.
I am more than "white", i am a white South African man with red hair and pale skin... if we are going to talk about the reflective nature of ones self in media then i get absolutely fuckall representation.
there is literally no one of what i believe is my self in media... but then we go deeper. im not religious, i am english speaking and not afrikaans or Zulu/Xhosa. I grew up in a very specific part of South Africa....
i can keep drilling down deeper and deeper and the more i do the less anything is going to represent "me" .
so we are now saying the very surface level of a human being, their skin color, is one of the most important aspects of ones self representation in media? isn't that a major issue with society if that is the case.
I love my national rugby team and being South Africa most of our best players are Black African men, but i grew up playing the sport and i can relate to those athletes and how they are handling a certain situation, admiring them for taking their skills to the next level, arguing that the pigment of ones skin color is even the slightest importance to ones character and self is essentially where the entire argument falls apart, even if you are meaning it in a small sense like (more mexican role models would be cool)... to me i would agree with that point, but not because i want mexican kids to feel part of the industry, but because i wanna see what creativity mexican people have to offer, I wanna see if my own character traits are in their characters so i can relate to them or if not, learn from them and how even though culturally we may be different, we may share similar values and so on and so forth.
the argument shouldn't be about "representation" and rather about expanding the industry so that mexican developers can make mexican games and those of us who aren't can enjoy as well. saying paint character A this color to make people happy is absolutely the wrong way for us to be handling this situation.
EDIT: just to clarify cause i know my thought process was allover there, basically yes we should see more people of all cultures, nationalities and so on in media, but not because of representation.
