I’m actually a fan of diversity if it’s included to add value to the story/narrative. Like in “The Expanse” where “racial diversity” isn’t about skin color, rather about whether you were born on Earth, Mars, or the belt, and physical differences are the affect of the gravity level you were raised in. This adds a uniqueness to the story and is also contextually fitting.
Problem is most modern stories just include diversity for the sake of diversity itself while not adding anything of value to the story. “Look, I have a black man in my book. Sure it doesn’t make any contextual sense and I won’t explain why there is this one black man among whites, but he’s there so you know I’m not racist.”
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Reply to There is no logical reason to exclude people of different races in a fictional universe that features dragons and magic by ToeNo5165
I’m actually a fan of diversity if it’s included to add value to the story/narrative. Like in “The Expanse” where “racial diversity” isn’t about skin color, rather about whether you were born on Earth, Mars, or the belt, and physical differences are the affect of the gravity level you were raised in. This adds a uniqueness to the story and is also contextually fitting.
Problem is most modern stories just include diversity for the sake of diversity itself while not adding anything of value to the story. “Look, I have a black man in my book. Sure it doesn’t make any contextual sense and I won’t explain why there is this one black man among whites, but he’s there so you know I’m not racist.”