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diversity in Rainbow six siege

5/23/2018

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"But just like every video game, there is always a lack of diversity when it comes to positive representations of Black and Brown people." ​
--emiliano estrada
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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is a first person shooter video game that is based on strategy, teamwork, and communication. Rainbow is a game that has many different operators to choose from, with different features and abilities. An operator named Jaeger, actually has autism, and uses his creativity to invent anti-explosive devices that aid his team. Half of the operators in the game are females, and are actually the best characters to choose from. But just like every video game, there is always a lack of diversity when it comes to positive representations of Black and Brown people.

The lack of diversity, however, isn’t just in Rainbow Six Siege. All video games either have a problem with having more black and brown characters, and/or give those characters negative attributes. This affects all players from every race, whether they are people of color who feel underrepresented, or white people who see this and believe it reflects real life. Two of the operators from Rainbow are afro-latinos from a Brazilian task force. It should be brought into consideration that because the two Brazilian operators are not the best operators to choose from in the game, Rainbow players are less likely to play these characters, and decreases the likelihood of black and brown diversity in a match. There is also a Black operator named Castle whom is arguably the worst operator in the game. This also contributes to less gameplay with operators of color.

However, Rainbow is always growing and changing, and in the winter Ubisoft is going to add two new operators from Morocco. This is really game changing, because the last time they added any new black or brown operators was two years ago. Ever since then, it has been only asian and white characters being included into the game. Although the Rainbow Six Siege community has no information on their abilities and backstories, what we do know is that there has been a  repeated pattern in powerful and solid characters being added to the game, and hopefully the Moroccan operators are one of those who are good enough to be picked oftenly and are the step stone to adding more racial diversity to the game.

This issue is important to me because when I go to play a video game, I shouldn’t have to worry about whether or not I feel included in it, and welcomed to the game. By playing video games, its a way from escaping life and school, and a way to relax and alleviate stress. The game should be able to reflect a world where everyone is included and welcomed, in every manner. When it comes to different genders, sexualities, mental health, body shape, and especially race; Rainbow Six Siege needs to be a diverse game to accommodate everyone’s needs.

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8 Comments
Ryan Jacobs
7/25/2018 01:36:03 pm

Sorry there's no fat, black trans blue haired vegan feminist operator, although if there were, his/her/it's special ability would probably be whining so loud the other team can't hear footsteps, in other news I love how u bring up an operators usage as a form of discrimination, "there's a black operator but he doesn't get used much so therefore the game is bigoted and racist" Is this really your premise? what a sad article, what a shameful writer, unfortunately not every game is going to have a black main character who is better than everybody else, I know that fits your bill of "equality" but that's not how it works.

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Ra
12/2/2020 08:12:40 am

Your comment reflects exactly what the author was getting at. For you to take such a disrespectful and defensive tone says alot about your insecurities as a Caucasian male.
There is no other group of people on the planet that do more racial “cheerleading” than Caucasians. At the same time Caucasians are second to none when it comes to crying and complaining when other ethnicities want representation. This country has and will always be home to overconfident, non empathetic, savage Caucasians masquerading as civilized people. Your comments were not only ignorant and baseless, they were pointless. We already knew you were a devil.

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DontEvenTryImMexican
3/23/2021 11:03:49 am

It’s so funny because melusi is literally one of the best operators right now so her shorn narrative is shot down

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Aiden
6/1/2023 06:18:15 pm

While I see your point that not every game should have the main character be black and overpowered it's still doesn't matter their way under represented you are exactly what the author's getting at you are truly the embodiment of racists trying to justify there actions

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mal
7/4/2019 08:46:27 am

Hi!! Just wanted to say I am sooo happy with your comments. I f*cking looove siege but I have to say I’m definitely a minority on the game (a black female). Nonetheless I wish I’d see more positivity in the characters of color. All of the asian characters are “techy” which is so unoriginal, and the 2 operators that are black women is Clash and Cavi and they made their icons so f*cking aggressive whereas every other woman character just looks average. Really wishing for more diversity but since the white patriarchy runs everything probs wont see it for some time. Lol white men hate inclusion!!😂

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Ra
12/2/2020 08:17:19 am

exactly sis, Caucasian purple hate inclusion because it could spell the end of them as a race of people. By far the most genetically fragile group on our beautiful planet

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DontEvenTryImMexican
3/23/2021 11:01:09 am

This is so fucking stupid, a game where literally there whole thing is getting people from around the world and you still complain about diversity, I mean for fucks sake we even just got a gay character. I mean we also got melusi and wamai, it’s just so funny to me that A game like rainbow that did diversity perfectly can still be shit on by a jackass like yourself

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Charlie W
4/19/2025 05:30:35 am

Since its mainly set in England and Europe and the operatives are from special forces and counter terrorism units shouldn't you be happy theres people of colour and women in it at all? Like statistically its too diverse.

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