WoW races to RL races??? *Not meant to be racist!!!*

[Kalaan]

Goblins are obviously Americans of Italian descent. They just scream Mafia, not to mention the accent.

[Deleted]

Okay; just to clear up why so many people compare WoW humans to US Americans:
1: Most of the representatives are white, while other racial fonts are available.
2: Stormwind 'leads' the Alliance, and acts as if they own the world.
It's really as simple as that.

[Fandandra]

I'm sure someone has said it but I don't feel like reading 12 pages lol

Blood Elves - Hollywood Stars (: I mean really, the guys are totally self-absorbed narcissists and the girls are total b's that think everyone loves them, plus they're like stick people.

That being said...I love hollywood, and I love blood elves! xD

[mercutiouk]

Humans are British and the Worgen are more specifically east london, British (aka Cockney - "mornin' gov'naaa" etc)
Most of it is in the voices the human females maybe sounds a little less easier to place but the human male telling the "lord of the rings" /silly sounds CLEARLY English throughout especially the "hey, the kings back!" it would sound VERY different with an American accent.

For some of the rest:
The Belf's actually remind me quite a bit of scandanavians. They are quite "cold" and a little aloof. Take away the coffee culture and how rowdy they can be the dutch can be quite "civil" rather than friendly and are generally quite tall and lean.

Goblins - I would (sorry here) actually have them as wannabe bro's/gangsters with the cheap, gaudy showing of cash etc with an element of middle eastern or jewish money sense (both are known for haggling and working hard to get a good deal). The above idea of italian's kinda works too tho.

Trolls - Jamacian

Dwarves - Scottish

Nelfs - I'll go with oriental asian

Tauren - clearly native american

Draenai - eastern europe/russian (the accent again)

Gnomes - without being mean, maybe chinese? Very industrious but not always quite so quality driven.

Undead - ? pass on these

Orc - again, unsure.

[surafang]

Orcs = African/Mongolian.

[Milanor]

I think every race in WoW takes a little bit from real-life cultures, and there are subsets and groups within each race in WoW that go against the norm.

Also, by nature of definition, defining separate races is "racist."

[Nesingwary-Eliada]

okey, if you ask me...

Nobody did.. was it REALLY necessary to necro a topic from May 21st, 2010? Really?

[GennGreymane]

my list

humans: American
Dwarf: irish/scottish/some russian
gnome: as piccolo says NNNNEEERRRRRRRRDDDDD
night elf: asian/celtic/amazonian
draenei: eastern euro/mid east/indian
worgen: british and the buildings are what ever they had in the victorian times.

orcs: mongolians/spartans/viking
troll: mesoamerican/carribian/african
blood elf: CALI CCHHYEAAAAA
tauren: native american
undead: as british as stewie at this point in their lore they are german militaristic
goblins: the criminal aspect of america

[TitanTyr]

Humans: American
Dwarf: Irish/Scottish
Nightelf: More of a mix of every Asian culture with Japanese being dominate
Gnomes: undefinable but I would say Chinese maybe
Draenei: Russian

Orc: African/Mongolian
Trolls: Jamaican/Aztec
undead: German maybe
Tauren: Native American
Bloodelfs: Some European flare

Worgen: British
Goblin: American/Italian

[Deleted]

Well what is considered a race then? White, black and yellow?

Dont forget green! Yeah i iz looking at you aliunz!

[Lemming81]

First off this post isn't try to discriminate against any races. If you have a problem with it....then ''fudge'' off.

I've noticed that the WoW races relate to some races in Real life. Here's what I think:
Night elf- Asian

That's a hell of a broad brush your painting with then. Indian? Chinese? Japanese?

Also most of your races are just taken from their game accents, which is pretty obvious to all of us, tbh. Just interesting that you have 'no freaking clue' about the ones that are clearly just plain old white Americans but based more on archetypes than just a single race (Gnomes being geeks for instance), and bizarelly the race with the brooklyn accent you chose as hispanic? o_O

How about we all agree that some are clearly supposed to evoke a single culture, while others are mixed?

And 'what real-life culture are WoW races based on' would have been a lot less ignorant a topic.

[Vulnero]

okey, if you ask me

Orcs are clearly the nomadic Turkic and Turko-Mongol of central asia, why?

First; the word HORDE(which orcs founded) is derived from the turkic word ORDA, which means Army and is used to describe TOTAL MILITARY FORCE of a turkic society.

second; Warchief and Overlord; A Khan shares same attributes with Warchief. to simply explain;

Khan is the supreme power of a Turkic Tribe, his word is death and his word is life. A master of combat, who leads armies to crush the enemies and then also deals with internal and external political problems. It is an inherited title and can not be earned even though besting him in a fight.
a successful general can not be a Khan yet he can be Amir or Bey(overlord or high overlord)

third; Religion; Shamanism(firstly the word SHAMAN is a loan word which is from the turkic&mongolic word; Saman)
wolf oriented shamanism; In Turkic belief, the Wolf is seen as the guide and savior of the Turks. In desperate winter Turkic nomads followed wolves to find nourishment as they were the masters of survival whatever the climate.(FROSTWOLF TRIBE?), the Tribe was called Ashina, who used a banner, a figure of wolf-head on it.(Divan-i Lugat-ul Turk, written by Kasghar-i Mahmut)

Another legend tells; When the turkic tribe was wiped out by chinese, only survivor of slaughter was an infant, son of the Khan who was left for death. Then a she-wolf appeared, saving the baby from the jackals, nursing him. then "that boy growed into a Warchief who gathered all the tribes under one banner and defeated the chineese han securing a living place for his kin."(thrall forming the Horde?)

Turks and Mongols are similiar in many ways, yet Mongols are potrayed as Centaurs.

and my advise there are great legends lies in far east, there arent only european legends and mythts. you should also check them out.

^
I second this.

[Electrifier]

lol with all races

[Agent1337]

Humans - Americans
Dwarves - Scottish
Gnomes - Russians
Night Elves - Japanese
Draenei - Gypsies
Worgen - British
Orcs - Africans
Trolls - Jamaicans
Tauren - Native Americans
Undead - Germans
Blood Elves - Persians
Goblins - New Yorkers

[Golden Deagle]

Though Draenei have Russian accents, their culture is based heavily off Indian.
Trolls are Jamaican, for obvious reasons.
Dwarves are pure Scottish.
Worgen are Northern England.
Blood Elves are west coast North American.
Humans are just medieval England/France.
Forsaken are zombie humans.
Gnomes are China.
Tauren are Native American.
Orcs are African/Middle-Eastern
Goblins are North Americans from the 30s.
Night Elves are Japanese in architecture and culture, though there is an influence of Ancient Greek in their Highborne structures (Azshara, Temple of the Moon)

[deltron zero]

Goblins always felt like a mix of guido, mobster and jewish ... lets say, culture.

[Solzan Nemesis]

Orcs and Trolls: black (Trolls being Jamaican)
Taruens: Native American
Pandrien and Nagas: Asian (I know there not playable, but I thought I would add them too)
Everyones else: White ( Four of these races are regionally defined(Draenei Eastern Europeans, goblins New York/ New Jersey and Worgens, British and Dwarvas are Scottish))

[Simca]

This topic's revival was a 6-month necro. If you want to talk about this more, do it in the General Off-Topic forums in a new thread, but somehow I think this kind of topic is offensive to a lot of people seeing as it is based on sweeping generalizations.

Locked.