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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA

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Is it cold in here?:
Just so. The Creator has been crystal clear about this.


--- Quote from: Jeph, long ago in response to a bad situation here ---It's idiotic bullshit like this that makes me tell people in the real world what a shitheap this forum is. Everybody's got an agenda and they're all trying to attach it to the comics.

For future reference, if you're trying to divine some overarching moral standpoint from my comic: the moral of my comic is that people should try to be nice to each other.

--- End quote ---

Kugai:
And that is all that needs to be said about that.

Blackbird:

--- Quote from: tacroy on 02 Feb 2015, 10:29 ---QC especially in the past year or two, has become not just inclusive but exhaustively inclusive.
--- End quote ---

As a person of colour, I have to disagree. Emily is there to echo the internet's favourite stereotype of "Japanese people are weird", and Dale is ambiguously brown but otherwise a prototypical gamer dork.  Neither of them does much to capture the experience of being nonwhite in a largely white community.

hedgie:
I'm white, so obviously, there's no way I've experience in dealing with such things personally, so I only have observation and speculation to rely on </disclaimer>

I don't know the demographics in the North Hampton area, so my only familiarity with University towns in California could potentially apply, and various flavours of Asian tend to be over-represented, compared to state demographics as a whole, whilst those of African or Latino ancestry are under-represented amongst the same.  I don't *think* that Jeph is deliberately white-washing the comic, but yeah, I think that your points stand, even if it's non-intentional (and for bonus points, Emily also fits the "nerdy Asian" stereotype).  If the NH (no, not that one) fits better with the comic's demographic, I wouldn't have much concern, myself, since it fits the world, I don't think it'd be as bothersome.   Hell, there are more robots near the main cast than non-white characters, and they have shown more development, aside from the exceptions of Tai, and Padma's brief run.

I hope that both Emily and Dale get more development, especially since Emily is close enough to Claire that she felt comfortable coming-out to her, and Marigold being close to the main cast, and both being with Dale and him working at CoD, that he'll get more development. 

Zebediah:
Actually, yes, Massachusetts as a whole is very white compared to much of the rest of the US. Having lived in North Carolina until three years ago, I found the difference quite jarring - I never lived in a town that was less than 30% black until I moved to Massachusetts. Durham NC, where I lived before I moved, has no racial majority. Whereas Arlington is - well, let me quote Wikipedia here: "83.6% White, 2.3% African American, 0.1% Native American, 8.3% Asian, 0.4% from other races, and 2.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.3% of the population." And believe it or not, Northampton is even whiter - 87.7%, to be exact.

So yeah, if you're used to a lot of diversity, QC may seem whitewashed. But it's actually not out of line with the real-world demographics of the area.

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