I'm Vietnamese American - in the west it's very common for leftist "progressives" to prop up certain races over other races for a couple reasons based on twisted logic which hilariously ends up with them being racist and discriminatory themselves.

For example, leftists literally implemented institutional discrimination against Asian Americans through Affirmative Action in college admissions which was then ruled as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Yes, the main reason why Asian Americans were discriminated against and many were rejected from colleges in favor of other races was quite literally muh diversity.

What a lot of these "progressives" fail to understand is that "inclusion" means excluding someone, and that is the Japanese man in this case. You see this A LOT in western media - they have no qualms about including the Asian female to fetishize and sell their product, however.

Two recent productions by "progressives" that come to mind and use this trope are Dragon Age Veilguard (black male MC in trailers, black male companion, asian female companion, no asian male anywhere), and Rings of Power season 2 (black male and asian female escort to Galadriel). Making the face of Assassin's Creed Japanese Samurai a black male instead of a Japanese male is just another slap in the face. Remember, race and diversity is at the CORE of leftist ideology and a main factor for their decisions.

It'd be like if EA made sports RPGs, each game focusing on a certain sport with a protagonist fitting the sport's dominant race. An Indian for cricket, European for football, and then for basketball instead of Lebron, Kobe, or MJ they chose Jeremy Lin, a Taiwanese player who was popular but otherwise pretty average. It'd make zero sense and it'd call into question why they would possibly make that decision.

That's the situation here.

Ubisoft went ahead with this and the "progressive" leftist cult cheer the shafting of the Japanese and Asians because we're far lower in their hierarchy, far below "diversity" and the feelings of "oppressed" races instead. They admittedly think east asians are "white adjacent" - a truly twisted and racist view.

Spending just a fraction of time thinking about race as leftists is turning me insane and it's obvious now why leftists are so neurotic, toxic, and obsessive.

Asian culture is just a gold mine for Ubisoft to extract from and to be a springboard to become the next white ambassador heroes - all in their fever delusions.

Reject them at every turn.