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Mass Effect Real World Parallelsby ~GeneralHelghast

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Asari= Great Britain (How the Asari were before the Reaper War was much like the British Empire before WW II. Also, they tend to be an all-female race that achieved great wealth and power. Yet, there are some Greek influences within the Asari)
Quarians= Russia (primarily because of their accents and a bit more Gypsy.)
Humanity/Systems Alliance= United States of America (mostly a multicultural state much like America. Plus, Vancouver is the capital on Earth and Canada may possibly be part of a unified North America. However, the Alliance HQ is on a space station called Arcturus Station.)
Turians= Greece (mostly because of their Sparta heritage)
Batarian hegemony= France (its name is French and that they were rivals with the Asari, much like Napoleonic France was a rival to Britain.)
Krogan= Afghanisatn (their views are similar to Islam's with some Mongol characteristics and are native to Tuchunka, a ruined, desert world.)
Volus= People's Republic of China (ultimately because of their economic dominance and mafia-based behavior within the galaxy, but this doesn't go with all Chinese people.)
Salarians= Germany (highly intelligent and highly advanced)
Vorcha= Mexico (most notably, drug cartels)
Hanar= Japan (higly advanced in technology and widely intelligent with some superstitions)
Drell= Israel (both Jews and Drell were exiled from their homelands, but for different reasons.)
Geth= Soviet Union (The Geth speak in an Ayn Randish form of English and were responsible for overthrowing and replacing the Quarian regime with a collective, communist society.)
Elcor= Australia (rowdy and rough because the elcor have missles on their backs incase of invasion. They also tend to be conservative in nature.)
Rachni= Vikings (raided and threatened Citadel Space just as the Vikings raided and threatened Christian Europe.)
Yahg= Pre-colonial Africa (since the capturing and enslavement of yahg is similar to the colonial slave trade.)
Prothean= Jamaica (Jamaican-accented people with a Roman-based society.)
Reapers= Mongols (known for bringing terror towards their conquered victims.)

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~davethesoldier Mar 11, 2013

YES FUCK! in particular the Drells

~Pierre-Caillou Jan 30, 2013

So, i'm a horrible Batarian studying Salarian culture ^^

~Ed9306 Dec 26, 2012

that is racist in many ways

~GeneralHelghast Dec 26, 2012

This has nothing to do with racism. Nor is it supposed to be racist. Not all Mexicans are drug lords. I think most Mexicans are good people in heart and the only ones who are evil are the drug cartels terrorizing Mexico. Also, not all vorcha are evil in Mass Effect and only the ones in the Blood Pack tend to be blood crazed. I remember that in the Omega DLC for Mass Effect 3, there are Vorcha that aid you and Aria into taking back Omega Station. then there is this one mass Effect 3 scene in which one Vorcha quotes "I may be ambitious, but I'm not crazy." Basically, Mexico's culture is rich with history and tradition and I understand how you fell. Still, this artwork has nothing to do with racism nor is it supposed to be of anti-mexican sentiment.

~Pumita May 6, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you for that, i'm mexican and i don't find this racist, (It was funny in fact! because i love the vorchas (They are tough SOB's in ME2)) but you might wanna edit the description on the deviaton; in mexico we know how bad things are, and how tough we have to be to overcome the fact that around the world everyone thinks that we live in a desert, drinking tequila and eating nopales, and yes, there's a lot of drug cartels and our best client "Shepard"

~Vanwa-Haleth Dec 7, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I was under the impression that the Systems Alliance's or at least Earth's capital city was Vancouver, Canada

~GeneralHelghast Dec 8, 2012

Well the characters in the game did mention about New York and there's also a fictional country called the United North American States, a merging of America, Mexico, and Canada.

~GigoXXIII Dec 24, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

The capital was a space station in Arcturus... Reapers destroyed it on the way to earth.

~GeneralHelghast Dec 24, 2012

Perhaps, yes. But to have a space station as a capital instead of a city on a planet is basically confusing. Besides, why would they use it as their capital? Why can't they use New York as the capital?

~GigoXXIII Dec 24, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Because New York is a city in oneof Earths nation states while the Alliance represents Humanity offworld. Earth itself is technically not governed by the Alliance at all and having Arcturus as the capital prevents bias towards one particular nation.

Besides if they were to use an Earth nation as a capital it would likely be geneva due to the fact that swiss have historically been neutral. That or London

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