Character Ethnicity

[Supreme]

I am starting this purely out of curiosity. What ethnicities have you played in your characters? Virtually all of my characters have been either generic caucasian, or Jews (which I am - somewhat). Please exclude posting about any characters with non-real ethnic backgrounds (aliens, atlanteans, mutants, etc.). Pardon the rough groupings, but they only allow a maximum of 10 options and there are only 24 hours in a day.

[lemming]

Originally posted by Supreme
I am starting this purely out of curiosity. What ethnicities have you played in your characters? Virtually all of my characters have been either generic caucasian, or Jews (which I am - somewhat).

Mostly Caucasian, but I've also done Thai, African/American, Japanese, and Latino.

The Caucasian origins: Bunch of US, but also Swiss, Israeli, and New Zealand.

BTW, your poll only accepts one answer.

[Supreme]

Originally posted by lemming
BTW, your poll only accepts one answer.

Yeah, sorry. It's my first. I guess just submit your most often-used character ethnicity -- or ignore the stupid thing entirely.

[Hermit]

I think I must have done almost every NPC ethnic option possible, almost. Probably missed one or two. Have done everything from American Indian, to Haitian, to Tawainese national, to Welsh.

PC wise, I tend to play Caucasian, born and raised in the United States. It is what I know best and I get lazy
Then again, I don't get to be a player often.
*Sigh*

[keithcurtis]

Most of my PCs tend to be Caucasian-ish, but in the course of GMing, I have played all of these as fully-realized NPCs, and many more.

Keith "master of a thousand voices" Curtis

[Starwolf]

I have done native american, japanese, english-caucasian, french-caucasian, Scottish-caucasian, American-caucasian, African-american, and generic caucasian.

[Ghost Archer]

My own characters tend to be 'generic' caucasian except for one Japanese.

[Zeropoint]

Now that I think about it, all of my human characters have been caucasian. No, wait--I've played a couple of Rokugani samauri, who were Japanese for all practical purposes.

With respect to personality, every character that I play is essentially me with a few minor variations. I think that if I tried to play another ethnic group, I'd either create a cliche, or end up playing them like a middle-class, white, west-coast American who happens to look a little different.

Zeropoint

[Monolith]

I have played White, Black, Native American, and Asian. As far as character nationalities I have done American, American Indian, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.

[Vondy]

I generally play caucasian characters. I also play Jewish characters fairly frequently (I place them seperately because not all Jews are caucasian(North African and Central Asian Jews have different 'racial stocks' altogether)).

I have also played characters of various asiatic races (Chinese, Japanese, etc), and Native American characters.

I did play one Black character (an ethiopian Jew with an Israeli passport).

[Pol Rua]

Whatever works for the character. I do tend to play Irish a bit (my mum's Irish). But I've played American, British (Caucasian), British (Black), East Indian, Polynesian, I've played Brazillian, Chinese, Finnish. I've played an Australian Aborigine, a White Australian, a Russian.
Like I say... whatever works.


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Pol.

[zornwil]

I've almost entirely played caucasians as PC, although my current PC, Blazing Arrow from the Western Sea who Talks to the Old Mule, is half-American Indian/Native American and acts in a blundering way in how he thinks Native Americans "really" are. He was "enlightened" by several peyote trips and although he did gain some vaguely supernaturally based powers (mostly of minor effect) and learned somehow Indian martial arts techniques, he is obnoxiously and wrong-headedly an Indian hero in his mind, so much so his own people have never wanted him around.

Upon reflection it's probably a back-handed reference to my mother's politically correct (in the white guilt/noble superior native culture way) obsession with Indians as I grew up. In general I don't try to do ethnic characters as a PC and struggle with portraying them as GM because I grew up in a very homogenized cauc environment, even though I later lived in much more diverse areas.

[Alibear]

As I play with Germans, they really don't understand if I start to do non standard accents.
I played a Scottish guy once called Mad Mach, a flying speedster with a bad temper, who was fun to play. I could ham up the accent quite well.(easy for me I hear ya say)

"Oh is that right wee man? Do you want tae step ootside an talk aboot it? No? But Ah dae. c'mere you tae me, ya wee shite yae"

[Trebuchet]

My current character is Russian, but the one that preceded her was Greek. My first character was American white-bread.

In our current group we have:
2 American "white"
1 Filipino
1 Bhutanese-Apache Indian (Don't ask!)
1 Apache Indian (No relation.)
1 Russian
1 "Atlantean" of indeterminate ethnicity

We had an android, but I don't think it qualified as an ethic group member.

[lemming]

I notice some people listing their NPCs as well. If I included those, I'm not sure if there are many that I haven't.