Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6431205-20130605125610/@comment-1672596-20130607134825

Fantomas wrote: It's race as in "cultural/ethincity". The other kind of Race isn't much of a "theme", especially when put next to the themes of other MGS games. This also links up with Kojima's "Not for the Future" comment, as racial differences are something we need to really put behind us as a species.

Yeah, though I'm not sure why it needed to be a theme now, especially when that topic had been dealt with to death in prior games (Gray Fox being interred at a POW camp in Vietnam due to his half-white status in MG2, the reference to J. Edgar Hoover in MGS, Raiden's nickname being "White Devil" (a Chinese slur towards caucasians in the region) in MGS2, the reference to Sigint being denied entry to various jobs before Zero got involved due to his skin color in MGS3, and Kazuhira Miller's childhood of him being mocked for his western appearance in MPW. And that's the canon games, non-canonically, there was Ghost Babel and the references to racism against the Boias and Eguabon's second in command being a victim of racism even from her own father). Then again, this game reused the theme of revenge that was used in Metal Gear Rising.