Thank you for this thoughtful analysis; you bring up things I have noticed myself as well as things I have not seen or considered (I don't know much about Boston and hadn't thought about Chinatown but what a great idea, that would have been so cool to see in the game).
I fully agree on not needing to see more racism in the Fallout setting than we already do, nor do I think it makes sense to have more in the post-apocalyptic period where, while characters with a nostalgia for the pre-war era certainly exist, they are the exception and not the rule. Your average wastelander doesn't care about what was happening 200 years ago and does not share the prejudices of that era nor would they even understand them.
And as an aside, I love Madison Li and she did nothing to the Lone Wanderer other than not fall at their feet the moment they appeared. JAMES DID FAR WORSE.
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I fully agree on not needing to see more racism in the Fallout setting than we already do, nor do I think it makes sense to have more in the post-apocalyptic period where, while characters with a nostalgia for the pre-war era certainly exist, they are the exception and not the rule. Your average wastelander doesn't care about what was happening 200 years ago and does not share the prejudices of that era nor would they even understand them.
And as an aside, I love Madison Li and she did nothing to the Lone Wanderer other than not fall at their feet the moment they appeared. JAMES DID FAR WORSE.