How come Cid is white but Cloud and Aerith are Asian???

He was clearly supposed to be White because they made him such a loud, rude, arrogant bastard.

I'm still not convinced Tifa, Rinoa or Garnet/Dagger/Sarah is supposed to look Japanese. Yuna from FFX reads as much more Japanese-coded to me because of her name but mostly because she's dressed like (and sort of is) a shrine maiden. She also looks very different from her immediate predecessors with shorter, lighter-coloured hair and heterochromic blue/green eyes.

Yuna is definitely more Japanese-coded, I agree about that, especially with the clothes. I don't know but I think pre-X they just didn't have the hardware to make them look more detailed so they just end up looking kinda ambiguous. Rinoa definitely looks the most like a real, normal Asian woman to me though, and she's coincidentally the one of the three I predominantly crush on but mainly because I go with Aerith in the Aerith/Tifa debate, but I still think they are all supposed to be Asian.