The village of Emond's Field, isolated for hundreds of years, so forgotten by the larger world that they haven't even seen a tax collector in generations is somehow made up of a very evenly distributed, very distinct global population, including a European, sub-Saharan African, Indian, Hispanic, Asian and so on... the books present so many opportunities for inclusion and diversity as these country bumpkins are introduced to a larger world and many different and distinct cultures... but instead we have this heavy-handed diversity box-checking right out the gate that actually beggars suspension of disbelief.
I'm with your other critiques, but think you're off base here. The world was literally broken 3,000 years ago, a dramatic cataclysm that destroyed cities, nations, even the fundamental geography of the world. Everyone and everywhere was disrupted. Entire peoples wiped out, others set to wander, others scattered. It took hundreds of years for civilization to rebuild.
AND Randland is our world about 4,000 - 5,000 years in the future, and you already see multiculturalism in large swaths of our current world.
The idea of races being geographically separated doesn't fit with what we know about this world.
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I'm with your other critiques, but think you're off base here. The world was literally broken 3,000 years ago, a dramatic cataclysm that destroyed cities, nations, even the fundamental geography of the world. Everyone and everywhere was disrupted. Entire peoples wiped out, others set to wander, others scattered. It took hundreds of years for civilization to rebuild.
AND Randland is our world about 4,000 - 5,000 years in the future, and you already see multiculturalism in large swaths of our current world.
The idea of races being geographically separated doesn't fit with what we know about this world.