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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA

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zmeiat_joro:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 28 Jan 2015, 15:19 ---Does QC seem like something from another planet to non-US readers, or are most of the themes universal?

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I live in Sofia, Bulgaria. Marten's attitudes and friend circle seem similar to mine, but, as Akima said, "then something will come along to remind me of how intensely foreign America is, in a manner that is almost jarring in contrast." And except that there's too few LGBT people in the cast compared.

Blackbird:
I do want to clarify that I don't think QC should have a racially diverse cast or anything.  It's set in a town that's 87% white in the real world, and its rare to find fully racially-integrated social circles even in more racially diverse areas anyway.   Too much diversity would ring false.   I brought up the lack of racial diversity as just one of the bigger examples of how this comic isn't as inclusive as some people claim (and it's the one that sticks out to me for obvious, selfish reasons).  It's neither good nor bad, it just is. 

Neko_Ali:
So this has brought me some curiosity... Atlanta, where I live has a racial demographics of 54% African American, 36% White. Seems about right to me, though the area I live in has a much higher percentage of black people (My room mate and I are the only white folk in several blocks, at least). Other areas have much heavier white, Hispanic or Korean presences.

The town where I was born however shows 92% white, 7% Hispanic and 1% African American. If anything, it seems they've got more non-white people in since I moved away... It wasn't until I moved to another state when I was 10 years old that I met a person of color...

Among my social circles (specifically the gamer circles I hang around locally) it's pretty rare to see anyone non-white. I know more female gamers than black gamers in the area...

So yeah, personal anecdotes out of the way, I would say Jeph hits racial dynamics pretty square on. Most of the cast is white, enough that those who aren't tend to stick out more. But nobody really seems to care. I know that Jeph  hasn't shown a lot of discrimination in the comic... and it's usually aimed at the robot cast. I wouldn't expect that anybody in the cast would have cared about Marten and Padma dating, or Marigold and Dale. I might have my opinions on that colored by where I live though... Atlanta is a strange blue dot in a very red state. There are still a lot of people around here that take a dim, sometimes violent view on 'race mixing'. Dora and Tai I think are a slightly different case. Tai is described by others as a 'non-descript brown' which could pass off as just a dark tan. And honestly, if people were going to be objecting about their relationship it would probably be more likely because they are the same sex.

Not that I want to have Jeph make the Klan show up or have nasty slurs spray painted on someone's door here.. Enough of that in real life thank you.

gprimr1:
I am white, and I grew up in an area that was

64% Black
19% White
4% Asian
8% Other


I would say Jeff is pretty much on for Northampton.

Kugai:
In the area I live it's a mixed population

European is a fair majority of the population
Samoan and various Pacific Island groups
Maori, but that appears to be a smaller percentage of the population than you'd think
Chinese, but they are also a small population
Indian and Pakistani  (And the old joke holds true here, they run the local Dairys and Minimarket)
Vietnamese, but they also are a VERY small population demographic
Somali - this has been a growth population in the last decade or so with Refugees coming into the community.

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