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Measure-head is already Measurehead against white people. But they are combinstion French and American. I say, close enough.
Thought it took place in DE's equivalent of Europe... not Amerikkka too (The Coalition reminds me of NATO)
The isola where the game is set was colonized by their Western European isola stand-in. Measurehead's ethnic background is indigenous to the isola where the game is set, though on a different continent / set of islands. He is black-coded and the isola was "French"-colonized so there may be further parallels to French -colonized Africa. But at the same time, Measurehead is from Revachol, he is not actually from the Semenese Islands. His identity and positions are a reflection of his experience in Revachol.
The only piece missing is that I don't think the game said much about indigenous people of the continent where the game is set. It may not be an analog of the US in that way or maybe their genocide is just intentionally memory-holed, much like it is in the US. Could be basically anywhere settler-colonized or maybe it is mentioned but is easy to miss. But they speak French-ish. DE isn't purely 1:1 of course, but the major description of Revachol is as a French settler colony that grew to prominence and became cosmopolitan, had a failed revolution that was put down by the "French"-led Western European imperialist alliance, and is now degrading under imperialist exploitation that is playing out in forms like the suppression of a longshoremen strike.
Le Caillou was settled twice before white settlers arrived, but the first culture there died out during the neolithic without leaving much of a trace and the Semenese only settled there temporarily and left for other parts of the archipelago "thousands of years" before Occidental settlers got there (the ingame source for the latter part is Measurehead, so maybe we should take that with a grain of salt). Revachol practiced settler colonialism during the Souzerainity and competed with the Occidental colonizer nations it had spawned from until the turn of the century revolution kicked off and ended the monarchy and its enjoyment of exploiting other parts of the world for apricots and magenta cocaine. But Le Caillou wasn't violently colonized itself until the Moralintern invaded and slaughtered every communard they could find.
Yes absolutely. I do think that the "this huge habitable continent had nobody living on it when we came here" is a bit much, though. I guess it could be an oversight but I would also suspect it is a bit of poetry to have an untrustworthy narrative about how nobody knows if any indigenous people were there when settlers arrived, and maybe it was empty, just waiting to be colonized.
tbh i have no idea how huge the island of Le Caillou is. Joyce calls it "a pebble", but she also claims that the entire island is able to sustain 200 million people, and Revachol is a metropolis with an "80 km radius" (that's slightly larger than LA, even if we assume that radius doesn't apply equally in all directions).
But yes, it seems unlikely that something that large wasn't settled permanently for thousands of years when it's part of an island continent with several ancient seafaring cultures.