Racial diversity amongst humans in andromeda?

Main audience is white males and many of them might not want a black female love interest. If you look at dating site statistics, you'll find out that black females are usually the least desired group of people. So they'd have to create another (white) female love interest to cater to their main audience. Which may not be feasible when they also want to add x number of aliens to the crew and cap the total number at 6.

When one of their main selling points is their characters, they need to make sure to hit their target audiences. And if they don't then I'm sure at some point during the creative process a suit from EA will tell them to. The same goes for the overrepresentation of white people, realism simply has to take a backseat due to marketing.

Interesting, but nobody's using generation ships. The whole project works on stasis pods, so this is a discussion for sequels.

What's the etymology of "goobacks," anyway?

To be honest, I think that the vast majority of people not looking purely anything would be a much, much better representation of what humanity would look like in 2187.

I was kinda annoyed she wasn't a romance option either especially because you can actually flirt with her (unlike solas) such a tease. Plus she asks what can she gain from being with you, ummm Im the freaking hearld of andraste! Im sure that comes with alot of benefits vivi lol. But the reason made sense ingame at least they never even gave a reason why harding wasnt romanceable.

If you have an inferiority complex due to race, the problem is in yourself for presuming an attack everywhere you go. Such pre-judgements are made on yourself because of skin color, and not the passer-by in the street. 

You know so little about me, and apparently so little about New York (narrowing down demographics of the boroughs is irrelevant, this is a city where you can have ten conversations in twenty languages down a street block on a daily basis, regardless of where you live) yet you choose to presume a LOT about something said in the context of a very irrelevent question about a video game. I wonder what sociology text it came from; it sounds like a poor attempt at intersectional analysis that presumes where one lives defines their outlook on social topics. 

Here is why it doesn't matter in the context of the game- they are all humans and racial hangups are irrelevant to them when aliens are walking around, and have been irrelevant for the whole series. 

Here is why it shouldn't matter in real life- we are all humans playing a videogame where we can choose that representation as need be for ourselves. The issue of race only becomes an issue when folks like yourself make it one. Doesn't matter if you are black or white to me, you're arguing something based on the presumption of an attack.

Your assumptions are not only wrong, but dangerously on the verge of presuming non-whites all suffer from an inferiority complex because of racial hangups. Perhaps you should choose your words more carefully, or get over your own apparent hangups that you may have.

As for me, I am going to enjoy a video game when it releases and not give a fuck about what the color of your skin is. Maybe you should too. 

The highlighted part presents the issue imo, since some races are generally percieved as less attractive by people from other races. So a black woman would have to be a lot more attractive than a white woman relatively speaking for me (as a white male) to find her attractive. Same goes for asians. The top percentage of women of other races look great, but once you go into average territory it's a whole other story. It has nothing to do with racism either, it's a matter of preference. You can't tell people what they should find attractive the same way you can't tell them what food or music they should enjoy.

Another thing to consider is that while race-mixing is heavily pushed in the media nowadays, the majority of people prefer to have partners of their own race. That's why I don't buy the "everyone is mixed-race in the future" line. White people are a minority in the world and we have the lowest birth rates. In most western countries these birth rates aren't high enough to sustain a stable population size anymore, so unless something changes we'll gradually go extinct over hundreds or thousands of years.

Because female dwarf romances are "icky" according to Bioware. Fetishizing other races is also problematic, unless it's a male qunari.

Ah. "You're pretty for a black girl" huh? Tell that to her and the relationship is over.

My ex is actually black and she was really beautiful. I wish that it had worked out...

Anyway, I think all races are beautiful, though I can understand why you might be attracted to some more than others. I don't get people who think someone is unattractive solely due to their race..

I feel the same, honestly the last thing on my mind if I like someone or find them attractive is their race. If I think someone's attractive, their attractive period regardless of race or skin color, but that's just me.

Detecting sarcasm isn't really your strong suit, is it?