Capcom's Views On Stereotypes

Stereotypical traits of characters exist in just about every TV show in 2016 but people don’t really talk about stereotypes within the realm of gaming and simulation. You’ll be surprised once you actually think about how much racism and stereotypical thoughts goes to making a lot of these modern day games. Capcom, a Japanese publisher and developer implemented a lot of fixed stereotypes within their games. Many believed that Capcom used stereotypes to help average people relate to characters more some think elsewise. Street fighter is Capcom’s best fighting game franchise. If anyone know a thing or two about street fighter is that Ryu and Ken is the face of the series they are the protagonist while the antagonist being villains like Bison, Akuma and Seth. The huge stereotype characters aren’t really visible with the primary characters besides Ken being a rich spoiled Caucasian that lives in a mansion. The secondary characters is where things start to get interesting. Dhalsim the only India character in the game is designed with stretch limbs that could reach about 5 times the average human length. Addition to his
She wrote the article titled “Ghetto Bitches, China Dolls, Cha Cha Divas” in which she discussed stereotypes in America next top model which was somewhat similar to the stereotypes in Street fighter. April wilkner a contestant in the show was only half Japanese but the show “framed her as uncomfortable with her cultural identity” (Ponzer 398) . The show production team even placed Asian symbols on her body to represent her culture more. Capcom does something very similar with cultural identities and characters. Capcom make sure you could tell a character whole background from just looking at their street fighters. Apart from Dhalsim physical stereotype representation in the video games and the television series he repeatedly mentions Yoga which is a famous ancient spiritual science in