Fixing The Sims 4's Representation Problem

[@Hallasammal]

Omg they even put the gnome in the sauna!! In old Finnish folk belief, we have "saunatonttu" or "sauna elf?" that's basically a little fae that lives in a family's sauna and takes care of it. Also, the wood blocks on the outside are a game called Mölkky :)

[@UnassumingLlama]

A sauna elf sounds so cute and friendly awww, thanks for the learning moment!

[@ssaintdolli]

that’s so cute!!

[@rosvokisu]

Torille

[@ГукетловаФатима]

​@@UnassumingLlama in slavic folklore though these homely entities were creepy and unfriendly

[@t00sa]

YES Mölkky is the best game ever lol. For anyone wondering: it's kind of like bowling but instead of rolling a ball, you hit the pins with another wooden block.

[@PigeonPlays-zf3mq]

EA: “We embrace diversity from all parts of California!”

[@cthulhucult3230]

They couldn't even make an accurate trailer park

[@Clay-qq5vb]

@@cthulhucult3230this made me giggle fr

[@Agathasbootlicker]

Ah yes, the vast world of the United States

[@beom3270]

Not everything can be represented to the way everyone wants.

[@ashleemarie8779]

@@beom3270then they shouldn’t make claims they can’t fulfill

[@shantepowell2977]

In my opinion the Sims team did Native Americans dirty in the horse pack. Outside of a few pieces of clothes there was nothing else, no new music, no foods, no new traditions, EA diversity is a JOKE,

[@sleepy_mushr00m]

Fr(i’m unable to make stuff with my own oc’s because of the Sims lack of representation)

[@pianopuncher]

Unfortunately american lives and perspectives have always been the forfront of the sims... and we all know many americans opinions of native americans 🙄

[@AnInsideJoke]

@pianopuncher Hell, EA doesn't even get the NON-Native portions of the American builds right. Everything's always upscale and uber-clean, like if it's not suburbia or Silicon Valley cities that have only existed for less than 30 years, they don't know how to make it. All decently-sized cities are at least a century old and have a bit of a hodge-podge kind of feel where the various prevailing cultures have left their mark. Ex: I live in St. Louis, a city that's not considered particularly "diverse" by a lot of the rest of the country, and you can STILL see the impact in the various parts and neighborhoods. You've got The Hill, full of descendents of Italian Immigrants, thanks to Little Bosnia all local supermarkets have an Eastern European foods section, and we've grasped at least the correct pronunciation of many Balkan words and names. There's Soulard, where you can see the city's OG French influence, and where there is a HUGE Mardi Gras celebration every year (one of the largest outside of New Orleans itself), and, for a Midwestern city, a large amount of Mosques from the influx of an ever-growing Muslim population from various countries, etc. EA "cities" are nothing but bland, homogenous upper-middle-class Whitebread disgraces that don't even bother to put in a single small family run ethnic/international foods store.

[@Zandalorscat]

There were several new foods though

[@eveonite]

They just put some sage plates in the furniture and called it a day.. just ugh

[@vrnki]

they created an entire world based on the Mediterranean, AND DID NOT MAKE A SINGLE MEDITERRANEAN DISH... that entire game pack was so lazy and disappointing smh

[@gadol6971]

OMG WHAT, WHICH ONE??? I'm Mediterranean, I never noticed there even was one 😭 (goes to show you how bad of a job they did with it, I suppose...)

[@vrnki]

@gadol6971 EXACTLY, you can't even tell! It's this wedding stories game pack. It's pure bs, and it's only based on one Mediterranean country, Italy T_T but idgaf tho, I made it Greek

[@gadol6971]

@@vrnki OMG MY WEDDING STORIES, SERIOUSLY?? Aaaahhhhh that sucks so much 😭 hell yeah for making the best of it though, you inspired me to try my hand at it! ❤

[@vrnki]

@gadol6971 I'm glad :D I built an Orthodox church, a tavern, a beach, and a couple of houses. If you or anyone else is interested, I can give y'all them

[@onyxraven3455]

Same with Willow Creek being Louisiana/ New Orleans and no southern dishes. I know Gumbo is there when you add outdoor retreat and fried catfish is in base game when you reach level 5, but no beignets or jambalaya in base game

[@Paulo-go5vo]

To this day I still don't understand how the game doesn't have a single world based on Africa and only Selvadora based on South America

[@gameoftomes14]

I would kill for a world inspired by Nigeria, specifically the city of Kano.

[@yee8332]

I've heard a theory part of it is because of Seasons. They can reuse the North American and certain European weather templates over and over again because neighborhoods for those regions already exist in the game, but they'd have to put in more effort to set up the appropriate weather and seasons for a new African or South American area to live in.

[@onidaaitsubasa4177]

They really should've added more residential lots to Salvadora and made it a residential world, cause it's a nice place to live in, I have a household living there with a mod that makes all Worlds residential, also it's a great place for an archeologist to live.

[@onidaaitsubasa4177]

​@@yee8332we already have the weather for South America, but I can understand an African based world cause isn't it like the desert but also gets snow in winter?

[@zoeyc5851]

They probably dont think theres cities Africa

[@chesirecat2969]

The creator of the Vietnamese house here and I'm so excited to be featured. Anyway, to clarify some things: 1, There were more clutter and terrain paint when I uploaded the build so I guess TS4 deleted them. 2, The 2 "raised platforms" in the main room of the main house are beds. They are also functional as beds in game as I hid tiny beds beneath them so just click on those beds and it would work. 3, The dining mat is actually placed in the same room as the altar. 4, The reason the fences around the chicken coop are so high is not to protect the chickens but to keep them in. They may not be able to fly but they can climb trees and glide. 5, Kinh is pronounced as King.

[@PrinceGrenouille]

Well done, your build looks so real ! I immediatly saw the beds and thought that it's look so accurate ! I love your work, so great !

[@steggopotamus]

I loved that build

[@Coralikespie]

THEY CAN CLIMB TREES???

[@celestecv7452]

When I saw the platforms, I knew those were beds! Traditional Filipino homes in my youth had them. Most houses now, even the ones in the provinces adhere more to the Western style. And Kudos that they have beds underneath to make them functional. Great build!

[@chesirecat2969]

​@@CoralikespieProbably not the way you are thinking. It's just that they can jump decently high and have strong enough grip to hold on to the tree and its branches.

[@emilaycloud]

Thanks for reviewing my polish block. EA probably wouldn't do this so it feels good to be represented in your video :)))

[@alicjaz2771]

Twoja budowa była zajebista!!!

[@kaja8506]

żabka i rodzice śpiący w salonie on point, gratulacje!

[@claudb7109]

I m still mad they made for rent not Eastern Europe themed.... if i think of apartments i think Eastern Europe ...

[@dariarussu686]

Thank you for the build, it's awesome!! So much nostalgia, even though I never was to Poland, but we seem to have the exact same apartment blocks

[@sorgius01]

​@@claudb7109 I get what you say, we have lots of apartment buildings. But the percentage of home ownership is thankfully pretty high (at least where i live), so not the best match.

[@limefry6594]

OH MY GOODNESS, THAT’S MY BUILD!! Anyway, others already mentioned the mölkky & sauna elf BUT the logs at 21:31 is a more personal detail. Our family has a tradition of collecting small birch trees for midsummer decoration. Us kids would sit in the back of the truck, holding tight onto our braches as we drove on the forest dirt roads. Ah, the memories… Thanks again for sharing my build! I loved looking at all the other beautiful and diverse builds in this hashtag. Would love to see a part two!

[@Cora.Corazoon]

As a Norwegian person THIS IS SO GOOD OMG? WHEN K SAW IT I IMMEDIATELY WENT “THAT LOOKS SO GOOD, ISTG IVE SEEN THAT WHILE PÅ TUR” BRO I FELT SO NOSTALGIC SEEING YOUR BUILD OMG THAT WAS AWESOME 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Crabby._.]

I thought it was a mölkky game and I was so excited

[@edwater.3]

as a norwegian guy i love your build!! my family used to go to finland pretty often, so your build brings me a lot of nostalgia. Keep up the good work!!!

[@thatweirdkidontheinternet7009]

as a swede you did such a great job! even if not everyone has a sauna in the summer houses gere in sweden, everything else is spot on to our houses as well! 😩😩👌👌

[@FairFeline]

Your place was amazing!

[@RedHatMeg]

Ha, Poland is first! So cool! The demonic gnomes are probably a reference to Wroclaw's krasnals. There was this whole action in Polish People's Republic era where Wrocławians were painting gnomes/dwarves around the town as sign of resistance. I think this might be it. Edit: Also the third apartment is supposed to be more in line of "old granny" vibe. The furniture is very old-school, but I remember all my older relatives having this kind of decor.

[@SugarMasochist]

Fellow Polish?

[@sarahloo2295]

the meblościanka in the last room brought me to tears

[@RedHatMeg]

@@SugarMasochist of course!

[@NatashaRomanoffRoses]

the third apartment looks exactly like my grandparents house!

[@NafreyM]

Omg the polish one was SO ACCURATE! The first one was probably the typical "help we got kids now and no money no space" with no trashcan visible (its under the sink) and the second one i literally could see anywhere where a grandma lives. I myself have caninets like those and i hate so much the fact they dont make the ones im used to in the sims 4. Also the fact they weren't able to put slavic curtains and instead had to go for the red ones was just sad to me. THE ZABKA WAS VERY ACCURATE AND I LOVE HOW YOU PRONOUNCE IT RIGHT (my mom always told me people might have a problem pronouncing ż bcuz not everyone has that sound)

[@babuszkot]

we really desperately need some slavic representation :v But the sims 4 will probably never do it, because it's not "visually pleasing"(i mean i kind of underdtand, but let's not underastimate trzepak, kompot, pierogi and a random man under żabka store)

[@Applesouce]

15:56 “i think i can see argentina from here” yeah i hate when it happens i wake up look outside to see what the weather is today and all i see is Argentina 😔

[@KD_Oliveira]

I can confirm that. Being a Brazilian, it's a super freaking struggle for us to have Argentina as neighbor. (especially during world cup times)

[@entersandmanlml]

​@@KD_OliveiraMUCHACHOOOOOOOOOS 🇦🇷😎⚽️

[@CarolinaNaiade]

​@@KD_Oliveira ai nem me fale 😂😂😂

[@santinodeagustini]

As an Argentinian, every day I wake up and look through the windows I see Argentina *(I live in a village)*

[@Koda_Grey]

Paraguayan me is amused. Haha

[@Jedrekzpolski]

Polish guy here, yeah, yeah, the build is spot on, had to make sure I didn’t open camera app by accident cause it looks just like the one outside my window, but… Girl, do you know how perfect is your pronunciation of „Żabka”? I am in awe.

[@frankisnot1148]

You're telling me other people don't have gnome shrines in their houses? Here they're mandatory, along polish flags and pictures of John Paul II

[@alexf225]

And a Maryja picture

[@kayynnnn]

D you guys also have bottle gnomes to buy and keep as a pet??

[@karbage8536]

My grandma literally has a copy the last supper in her living room lol

[@frankisnot1148]

@@kayynnnn that would be unethical. Every gnome is free range.

[@aenilies]

​@@frankisnot1148 Oh, so I'm the only one who keeps them in my aquarium 😔

[@IsisChevaunne]

Willow Creek is based off of New Orleans and the game does not feature one single Cajun/Creole dish let alone soul food which is CRAZY, lazy, and inexcusable.

[@29.11plum]

To me it looks nothing like New Orleans either lol smh….especially with the snow during winter

[@elliscrawford7026]

If you told me to guess New Orleans I would not have, it looks like Michigan

[@heroicznywrobel]

As a person from Poland, I regret that the Sims still doesn't have any pack based on Slavic culture. I think it has potential, which can be seen, for example, in local traditions, regional bands or Slavic folklore in general. Even if there are small chances for it, I still believe that one day EA will announce pack inspired by Central and Eastern Europe. (Maybe another tourist pack in the style of a Snowy Escapade or adding cars to the game).

[@Space0fox]

Yeah, unfortunatelly there is no single Slav person in EA team and we still for them are "Just Russia"

[@ЛюбительФруктов-г3д]

Да

[@lavkabg4076]

​@@Space0fox True 😭😭😭

[@mrmistyeyes4338]

I’m Macedonian and Slavic and Balkan representation is so just horrifically done in most media and as much as I want that representation in TS4 I am *so* worried about EA butchering it

[@schnapapoo]

Fellow Slav here! Sims 3 had two small clothing/item packs: "Mother Russian" and "Bohemian Garden" but I think from those names it's obvious that Slavs were not really consulted or intended to be the main customers :(( It sucks that those might be the closest we've gotten from the series

[@CarolinaNaiade]

I hate that my country is represented by a clothing kit (Carnaval Streetwear) that represents just a fraction of what Brazil truly is 😔😔😔 Anyway, I love seeing another cultures that are different from mine!

[@ismdejour]

and there's only brigadeiro and pão de queijo as Brazilian reference. we have so many other great dishes.

[@xtakeitisisx]

I think it has churrasco too. Also i'd love to see a Brazilian building on one of FFG's videos, please someone build it, i don't have the game so i can't ;-;

[@myself6360]

Então né! Kkkkkk mas eu espero que a equipe do The Sims, com o tempo, lance mais objetos e receitas do nosso país e cultura

[@kayynnnn]

They failed even in representing the Carnaval right. No parades? No Samba? No Samba School's tacky t-shirts?? I'm sorry buy they created "gringo comes to brazil for s*x" clothing kit

[@brendalima5292]

It has acarajé as well

[@trezalkapeliskova2121]

As a Czech the Polish apartment complex made me tear up a bit. I have so many memories made around these buildings. EDIT: Seeing the residents of the former eastern block gather under this comment warms my little heart.

[@mrkf1cka]

Real

[@kaja8506]

fr, im polish and those disgusting playgrounds literally raised me lol

[@trezalkapeliskova2121]

@@kaja8506 those metal globes! Literally the best playground ever.

[@ajsvajs]

As a Slovak, I can feel the same. Literally, those old buildings where I used to live with my grandparents, and with neighbors that are like other families because they knew too much :D

[@d1skr0t]

As a Bulgarian I totally relate

[@manyofnine1561]

the polish block made me laugh because the literal first thing I built when I got the landlord pack was build an eastern block like my parents grew up in 😂

[@dreamcolorzz1570]

LET'S GO POLAND MENTIONED 🎉🎉🎉🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@HolsomWasHere]

POLSKA GÓRĄ RAHHHHH!!!!!!

[@UrDad000]

I was gonna build something too but I gave up lol

[@marleo9197]

🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

[@nataliasliwa7006]

​@@UrDad000 same, I wanted to build an old dworek but I don't have that many expansion packs lol

[@idk.9876]

POLSKA💪💪💪💪

[@pitrku175]

I think that Slavic culture is very aesthetic. Yes, maybe we live in Soviet concrete blocks but if you dive deeper into the beliefs of old Slavic people and our traditional clothing there is so much color in this. In every piece of our culture, there is a deep connection with the animals and nature (mostly woods and fields filled with flowers) In every piece of our culture, there is a deep connection with the animals and nature (mostly woods and fields filled with flowers). There is this traditional butter-making activity that they could add to the game (we had this in sims 1), traditional "drowning of the Marzanna" at the beginning of the spring, to chase away the winter, traditional Slavic dance and folklore music and not to mention - tons of traditional food. They could do that. I, and - I think most of the Slavic people - would be happy even about such a small thing but they are just lazy and the diversity in this game is just about the biggest cultural minorities in America. They don't care about the world. The rest are just "vacation" or "heritage" for them

[@camiomilla]

As a felow simmer outside of USA with an underepresented culture (I am from Brasil/Latin America), I feel you, the part about "vacation" and "heritage" is so true 😢

[@babuszkot]

It is a vibe, sort of

[@ugh7813]

wait, this video is so wholesome, can we have a part 2? I'd love to see other culture's home. I got pretty emotional when I saw the mate in the Argentinian kitchen, the only representation we have in this game is an awful t-shirt with no simlish on it😂

[@UnassumingLlama]

I second a motion for a part 2!

[@CyanCurry776]

Hay Asado y choripán también, pero estaría bien tener más que una remera y comida xd

[@ugh7813]

Mala mía, uso tan poco la parrilla que los olvidé por completo 🤣

[@melon4428]

Sarah, thank you for this opportunity to share. It has been an honour to participate in this competition.

[@vexywexypoo]

The football t-shirt, right?

[@nitzan3782]

It's not "Mate" as in "m8" it's mate as in MA-te and it's a really strong South American tea. My dad's childhood home is similar(he showed it to me on a heritage trip) except it's two-stories and his sisters would always go and smoke on the roof. As someone who currently lives in the Nordic countryside, this might as well be one of my neighbors' houses. Not mine cause mine's not red, the literal only difference.

[@MH-fb7hh]

22:14 The logs are actually part of a popular finnish summer cabin game called Mölkky! You toss a ball and try to knock over the pins, or try to toss a ring onto them (I've played both versions, but my family might just be weird) And the naked gnome is a refrence to the fact that we go to sauna naked :)

[@NoahGooder]

i mean when you go the sauna the most people wear if not naked is a towel.

[@MH-fb7hh]

@@NoahGooder True! Although in some countries (what I've heard from friends and family) people go to the sauna in swimsuits AND towels. That might have been Germany... I've also heard people get mad when you toss water onto the sauna stove (Like that isn't the point? XDD). It's weird how much a tradition changes when it's introduced to other countries and cultures. From a kinda-sacred place of healing and relaxation to some spa-exclusive fancy schmanzy thing :]

[@TezziMonstah]

I think the most traditional OG way to play Finnish Mölkky is that you throw one "mölkky"-log at the pile of others, kinda like bowling with other logs being pins that you try to knock down with the throwing log. It's really giving bowling in a forest ✨😂 It's much fun and some people have their own house rules for it for example the mölkky have numbers on them so you can try to hit the biggest numbers to claim them as yours etc. I literally screamed at loud when I saw the logs and went " THAT'S MÖLKKY!" very Finnish very wow #torillatavataan

[@ninteney9777]

​@@MH-fb7hh hi I'm from germany and we also go naked into the sauna. However there are some where clothing is allowed but it's not as common.

[@d8rain]

I’m Native American and my tribe does “sweat lodges” which is basically a medicinal sauna and some ppl go in with little clothes as well 😅

[@olgaskawinska3377]

Not me being actually emotional beacuse Poland is included and that build is sooo accurate, i feel like most of polish people grew up like this, and żabka is perfection

[@trezalkapeliskova2121]

What I would build for Czechia (if I owned The Sims and had any building skills): - a Moravian wine cellar built into a hill - a baroque church (there's one pretty much in every village) - a pub that was built in the 70's and now looks kinda dingy and has weird smell - a vacation house by a pond - a camping ground by the river with canoes pulled up to the shore - a "garden colony" (multiple private gardens next to each other, usually the only building on the property is a shed)

[@Follow_a_bee]

Yeah I was just thinking about gardens settlements (?), think it would be fun they could add fruit trees (peach,plum), nut trees, more veggies (cucumber, corn) with it. A beer making maybe?

[@RedHatMeg]

Please, do baroque church. It would be EPIC.

[@alexrain9316]

as a fellow czech person I really wanna build at least some of these (I own the sims but I'm not sure if I have the skills tho)

[@martynauwu3387]

this garden colony thing is also very common in Poland so maybe even in other slavic countries too

[@trezalkapeliskova2121]

@@martynauwu3387 it might be connected to the popularity of panel apartment houses? People can't have gardens atached to their homes, so they use the colony.

[@ademonys2292]

I live in a polish post communism block and yes there's a little broken playground outside every block, yes there's a small creepy staircase, yes there's a separate area for trash and yes there's a grim reaper in my room

[@Qwerty-wk3jy]

in argentina it's like that too! Without a trash area (that i've seen in the Fonavi close to my house)

[@Trassel242]

I know that we’ve got some kind of European representation with Windenburg, but that one has so many different parts of Europe squashed into one place that it ends up looking like nothing at all because it tries to be so many things at once. I’m in the beginning of the video and the Polish flat block looks a lot like where I live, in a small, kind of boring town in Sweden (no evil gnomes though!). I grew up in a flat myself, sharing a room with my little sister until I moved out. I forgot about this build challenge thing but would have loved to participate!

[@Space0fox]

Saying that Windenburg is European representation is like saying that Mt. Komorebi is Asian represenation

[@melizabeth555]

yeah, and the only differentiation they seem to make is henford on bagley which whilst i’m not exactly complaining about the “lack” of british stuff by any means but literally nothing about that world looks like anywhere in the uk, sure there’s thatched cottages but the actual world looks really jungle-y which is just stupid, like they can’t even get that right let alone non english/american ish places right 😭 the closest place that it looks like is what tourists probably think the cotswolds look like which doesn’t reflect the uk as a whole in any way

[@Stettafire]

Hard agree. Also it feels very stereotypical and not genuine.

[@ssophua]

*Western European

[@boygirl]

@@melizabeth555 also, that pack is supposed to be 'british' but if you want a kettle you have to get another pack

[@ericmihali9091]

The lack of representation was never a problem for the sims because the first 3 games had a clear design in mind that was based on 1950's america aesthetics.

[@Space0fox]

When I was a child/teen playing The Sims 1-3 it was never a problem to me because I saw it is mostly US but now I see all those cultures that have their own representation EVERYTWHERE and are like 'ah yes... we are just worse..."

[@gab_just_gab]

I love how the Italian house has the obligatory sun on the wall. That's how you know it's genuine lmfao

[@CiaLaVirago]

Literally why we love to stick suns on every single wall 😭

[@فلسطينحرة-ث9ض]

agreed, but the house doesnt look that realistic to me.

[@fff-my1ol]

as a Taiwanese never thought I would see a real nightmarket on the sims and fgg's channel :0!!! this is actually too accurate. LOVE IT.

[@rockbellmakeup]

Thank you so much for touring my build and for creating this challenge! It was so special trying to represent Argentina in a build and, as you said, it was made with a lot of love. I also enjoyed the other builds SO MUCH. Love to see all the details and the different styles...

[@fin3062]

boludo te quedó buenísimo el mate

[@rockbellmakeup]

@@fin3062 Gracias! me volví pelotuda

[@maitesoto1953]

Te quedó espectacular! Amé las puertas con las cortinas, me hizo acordar a la casa de mis abuelos (no es casa chorizo pero sí de esa época)

[@alicemcdonalds11]

Te quedó increíble!! He visitado Argentina varias veces cuando era niña y esta casa realmente capturó la esencia de Argentina como lo recordaba, está hermosa

[@FaltronMotors]

La casa me hizo acordar muchísimo a una película vieja argentina ( no me acuerdo el nombre ahora)

[@lu7113]

I don’t know if the person who made the Taiwanese build speaks or understands French but the fact that their username literally means “son of a dog 1234” (fils=son, de=of, chien= dog) which is technically an insult is killing me😭 I really hope they are onto the joke PS: I’m French that’s why I understood it

[@PrinceGrenouille]

La prononciation de ffg m'a tué d'ailleurs 😂

[@alisayarova4949]

I'm from Ukraine and Polish one is really similar to what we have here. Loved it!

[@marketarychtarikova1949]

I'm Czech and same

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

Boanian & SAME!

[@dustin445]

What is the obsession with ukrainians always comparing themselves to the Polish people?

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

@@dustin445 Ukraine was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. That, and Lviv, a city in the West of Ukraine, used to be majority Polish until like, the 1930s.

[@bananachip9619]

​@@dustin445 People like to compare their lives with others' in general, dustin

[@mirelinkk]

ngl, as a serbian, though the first build was polish, it definitely reminded me of home! i guess many slavic cultures have similar buildings or architecture lol. the sims team really needs to fix their representation problem 🙏🙏

[@blondeee]

Can we appreciate Fgg spelling Żabka almost perfectly?!!! ... Btw, the last apartment gives me PRL vibes lmao. 😂😂😂

[@hellgix]

It should! A lot of poles, especially the older gens have the same furnitures they had in the prl era

[@babuszkot]

Oh i guess my house is a museum then, because all of the furniture is from prl

[@novadearest]

The Vietnamize wooden beds!! I only know about those from a Vietnamize creator on youtube, but it's sooo cool being able to notice what they're trying to portray in the sims!! Man I love this video. I love getting to take a peek into other people's cultures and lives like this, it's so beautiful, thank you FGG for the amazing build challenge!

[@janerain13]

i made my grandmother's house since its the most culturally-representative building i know, but as i was building it i had an emotional breakdown and gave up. i still want to do it though, even if it doesnt get mentioned, just to honor my grandma and our history

[@Gabby-me6zn]

it’s been a couple months, but i hope the beauty and emotion of representing your home stays with you both in and out of game! i also really hope you can revisit building your home if it’s something you still want to resume 🫶

[@duartsy]

14:37 “sims will write in simlish but the numbers are in English?” 😭😭 girl numbers are pretty much universal to all languages what do you mean by English numbers

[@elih6087]

Took me too long to find this comment. English numbers lmao they're Indian (even though people think they're Arabic) and it's not like every language has their own numbers anyway.

[@AstronomicalJelly]

arabic has its own numbers, as well as roman numerals. there are a lot of different numeric systems

[@onidaaitsubasa4177]

The polish building actually looks like it would be functional with Apartment Living and the home business traits mod, could have the person of one apartment run the store.

[@Dinoxdeath]

I'm only just at the first build and holy crap. It hit the nail on the head. I know it's Polish/ Eastern European inspired, but it's very close to certain apartment blocks in The Netherlands as well! It felt closer to what I am used to than ANY EA build I've seen. I'm now at the second build, and once I stayed in France at an airbnb that on the outside looked like build 1 but the inside looked like build 2!

[@farima2382]

The wooden blocks in the yard of the Finnish house are meant to represent "mölkky" which is a game you play during the summer. :)

[@VideosForYou90]

I absolutely LOVE the Italian house! I'm not even Italian haha but my family used to go on vacation in Italy during the summer all the time when we were younger and we stayed in these kind of houses. And they're just so comfortable, nostalgic and welcoming to me! :)

[@dreamscapecircle]

ARGENTINA MENTION AYO (also a lil tidbit: the mate is actually pronounced "mah-teh"-- it's a type of tea we drink thru a special metal straw that kinda has a filter on one end bc we keep the tea leaves in the cup)

[@noahlovesmateco]

Mate is our own essence of life lol

[@watchingthebees]

As a Brazilian I absolutely HATE that the world that looks the most similar to where I live (Selvadorada) is a vacation world, like no one actually lives in South America, it only exists for tourists

[@celestialg1rl0101]

great video, just a note though, the "ice cream parlor" is actually a Boba tea shop, as Boba originates in Taiwan and is very popular there :)

[@samuelzachariev]

I love the amount of love people put into builds from their cultures. Also as a Czech, seeing the old Polish apartment made me think of my grandparents’ apartments 🥺

[@naeshelle]

I would love to see more representation of countries from across the Global South. It’s ridiculous that we get ten flavors of white America & a few cultures of color/non-American cultures sprinkled in. If diverse representation is the standard, then it should truly be the standard.

[@d_emo_nica9299]

As a Polish woman I can confirm - we all have gnome Grim Reaper riding on chicken in every apartment in Poland #confirmedinfo 🤔❤️

[@Follow_a_bee]

As Czech🇨🇿 I would be ecstatic If they add atleast some Slavic food! And ballet, maybe theaters?🙌

[@notamelia]

omg! i’ve always wanted a slavic inspired world but never could figure out what the gameplay could be but you just made me realise that it would be the PERFECT opportunity to introduce a functioning stage for bands (to make staple pubs with live music), theatre/opera, ballet and even folk dance performances (in traditional outfits)! i would cry.

[@yourm0ther792]

LETS GO POST-SOVIET APARTMENT BLOCK!!! im not polish but we have the same buildings AND IM SO GLAD SOMEONE BUILT IT!! i was going to build it but i gave up

[@xxxelislxxx]

I absolutely loved the Polish one! It reminded me of the old school appartments we have here in Czech Republic. I would love some more Slavic representation in the Sims, but I doubt that would ever happen. :')

[@thaoshenna2009]

Love from Vietnam 🎉🎉. As a Vietnamese myself I’d say the build is pretty accurate. Especially the raised platforms part, in many traditional Vietnamese houses we have wooden “beds” that serve many purposes: for sleeping, for family meals, or for when you just want somewhere to laze.

[@henriquebastosbernardoni3630]

Fun-not-so-fun fact: None of the worlds in the game represent a place from the Southern Hemisphere! Maaaaybe you could say Selvadorada for having South American cuisine and such, but I'd say it's much more based on Central America/Mexico, specially the ruins.

[@Junephoto7050]

😔

[@PrinceGrenouille]

And you can't even live there since it's a vacation world. Here i crave a north-african world, but i don't think it will ever happen. I really think EA evaluates that our cultures aren't commercial enough to be represented

[@Junephoto7050]

There is a mod by Zerbu which allows you to live in Selvadorada

[@PrinceGrenouille]

@@Junephoto7050 Yes, you're right, and i used it. But the problem here really is that EA practices some king of low cost representation, but claims to be inclusive. 😕 It's EA who must create truely residential lots and/or get Selvadorada accessible for residential. Modders and CC creators do a really great job, but EA has to do real inclusivity. For example, they begin to do stuff for trans people, but the binder isn't binding anything, or the choice of pronouns only exist in english (in french, there is a lot of variety of pronuns for non binary persons, but EA does not implemente it) All of this sounds like some "inclusive-washing" (i don't know how you can call it in english, that's not my native language) like pink-washing. They just fake inclusivity, ans that's pissed me of a lot (don't get me wrong, you have nothing to do with that June, of course, and it's great that you reminds Zerbu's mod. I just needed to be mad a little against EA and use your comment to tell all of this. I wish you the best)

[@Junephoto7050]

@@PrinceGrenouille thanks! Ou merci! Pas de problème, je comprends! Eh oui, EA doit encore travailler sur la représentation... bientôt j'espère ! Ça me ferait plaisir de créer plein de sims différents! Tout le monde a le droit d'être représenté

[@КалинаГеоргиева-я8ю]

As a Bulgarian the Polish block choke-slammed me into the ground. I could smell every single room in the build, it felt like I was back to being a little kid visiting relatives in different apartment buildings and being fed tasty food.

[@saltlampp]

ARGENTINA MENTIONEDDDD 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 (its the closet ill get to Chilean representation)

[@Lyliizz]

No, it's not. I say this as a South American living in South America.

[@saltlampp]

@@Lyliizz I mean in the sense that EA tends to generalise whole continents into one 5 lots world

[@paulatano1746]

¿Tienen casas chorizo en Chile?

[@Qwerty-wk3jy]

ARGENTINA MI PATRIAAAAAAAAA (suerte la proxima amigaso)

[@quiescence90]

I'm pretty sure the one next to the noodle station at 18:30 is a boba (bubble tea) shop, and the red one next to it is an apothecary-medicinal herb-shop place, cause Taiwan definitely has these places. Awhh I would've loved to join this one, it's Eid and I miss my water village T^T (my grandma's house burned down along with the entire village in 2019, it was devastating)

[@ydnebs]

Oh yeah slavic rep is definetly lacking in modern media... I also would like to see something that is like, not so russian-focused? Not that russian culture isn't important, I just feel like whenever there is a slavic character is in a mainstream media is always russian and even then its kinda fetishised. Also when it's comes to aesthethics; our culture is way more that those depressing communist blocks. I'm sure EA could easliy made a very green, kinda rural world with big agricultural fields, representing our countryside, with typical slavic, boxy subburban houses, with a church-like museum maybe a pre-ww1 manor house. Idk about the gameplay, perhaps something about discovering local history? The only problem with slavic rep in the sims is that our culture and history is really based around religion, which might not work for the Sims. I still hope they'll figure something out.

[@Space0fox]

Yeah, I always HATE when some people are annoyed they "ONLY HAVE 1-2 REPRESENTATION in mainstream media". Like our representation in mainstream are bad Russians who are bad... I would be crying for even one normal Slavic representation in mainstream...

[@ssophua]

russian culture is 90% stolen from the nations the used to colonize so it is in fact not important. We'd be better off if we celebrated the cultures of the oppressed nations 🤝

[@netvoedelo9956]

Russian here. You see, Russian so-called "representation" is used in American soft culture (like games, movies, TV series, comics, etc.) for anti-Russian propaganda. An American would rather pick out its own eyes than make any kind of compliment towards Russian or any other Slavic culture. It's easier for them to hate and lie about us.

[@fh9061]

It really bothers me how much slavic cultures are misrepresented in media. Like slavic characters are either villianized or sexualized or both and no one ever calls out how racist that is.

[@Arting_Through_Life]

Oh that "white passing" comment is so for real! I'm middle eastern and when people comment on my accessories or my sayings and mention "cultural appropriation" I'm like IT'S MY CULTURE!!!! These were all so amazing!

[@Spooky-Sara]

Are you Persian?

[@fh9061]

That sounds really annoying. But being middleastren who's not white-passing is also not fun because people keep asking the most offensive questions and calling you slurs in the street. Unfortunately this is the world we live in:/

[@savagealleycat]

The effort to make sure pronunciations were correct 😙👌 I love that you have delved into cultural representation lately. So cool to see!

[@Emem229]

As a Finn i got so excited when i saw The Finnish summer house. I really want a Nordic inspired pack. Thank you for including Finland

[@ruusupuu]

the wooden posts in the nordic summer home build represent a game that we call in finnish "mölkky"! it is often played during summer. the wooden blocks are numbered, and u throw them with another wooden block and try to get to a certain amount of points.

[@yesplatinum7956]

We don’t number them here we just throw and after you get the king you win

[@yesplatinum7956]

Looked it up and apparently it’s a different game. You don’t play kubb?

[@henkkahenrik4183]

Also, for some fucking reason, that one drunk dude playing ALWAYS wins. Like it's a canon event. Wanna win at mölkky? Be drunk out of your mind.

[@violettbun]

@@yesplatinum7956 i'm guessing its similar but not the same since us swedes win by knocking out the king

[@jankajavorska9777]

Oh god those brown/white windows in Poland block are so accurate damn, it was always like this cause people changing from old to new windows since the original buildings are so old that they had very old windows which were falling apart haha

[@lexbjork4422]

YES!!! the scandinavian summer house is so nostalgic to me and it is very common to split it up into two smaller houses this house had a sauna in the second house but it can really be anything, our summer house has the second house as a guest house and laundry room (and we have a sauna to ofc lol, we LOVE our saunas here up north. its a midsommar tradision in our household)

[@user-rw2dr9fi1v]

it's finnish and thus not scandinavian

[@lexbjork4422]

@@user-rw2dr9fi1v finland is in scandinavia bro 😭

[@lexbjork4422]

@@user-rw2dr9fi1v finland is in scandinavia bro

[@Ameliayg]

⁠@@lexbjork4422its not, scandinavia is norway, sweden and danmark. Finland is nordic not scandinavian

[@lexbjork4422]

@@Ameliayg well in my cuntry we count finland in aswell usually, this was just supposed to be a comment about how i recognize the build and how its very nostalgic to me, now please everyone reading this its not a big deal

[@MyNameIsSamarka]

i love the polish one!! very czech core also. yes we slavs are white but very different than western europe, and very little things in game actually resemble my central european life. also cool to see more czech people in the comments here!!

[@strwberry_mist]

i swear ive actually passed by the nordic one😭 the details of all the mosquitos, those logs, the grass, even the pond looks exactly like something i've swam in before...

[@tomjohnson4922]

I am so going to plunder this part of the gallery as I like to populate my worlds with different cultures' myths and folklore. Now I can put them in their own houses. Sweet!

[@AndreaLunaXD]

As an Italian I loved how you pronounce "la mia vecchia casa". Pretty good pronounce. Also the house is really good, outside looks exactly like Italian country houses, inside it seems exactly like the description, a lot of vintage Italian furniture with other cultures influences, very realistic, the terracotta floor which is typical in our old houses remind me a lot of family and friends houses. I've never thought about make my Sims houses looks more Italian, but now I'm going to create a courtyard system which is a very common building in north of Italy, where I'm from. The only problem is that usually it's a multi apartment building, one court can have more than 20 families, so I can't play it in the game as it is in the reality. P.s. if someone wants to know. The toilet room is separated because very old houses didn't have it like 80 years ago, so big families house get improved by the years and the toilets was added making a column attached to the house with inside a toilet for every floor, the results is that very old houses have toilet room separated to the bathroom and some times the bathrooms aren't even close to the toilet room. I remember my uncle house having the toilet door in the middle of the living room between two windows.😂 In courtyard systems you can still find a little room out of apartments, on the balcony, which are toilets, because in some old buildings it was too complicated to add toilets that leads in apartments, so they built one or two toilets per floor and every family of that floor had to use it. And that's why in different European countries you can find the bathroom and the toilet room separated. Because we had the bathroom inside house before the middle ages but only "recently" we all had toilets inside house. From 100 to 50 years ago. Depends on the country.

[@cirquedutournesol]

The lights for the Zabka Cafe sign!!!!!!! That's the coolest idea omg!!!!!

[@hox6287]

I'm happy to see Slavic representation, not Polish myself but I am absolutely happy to see more Slavic representation that isn't just Russia.

[@Chella972]

I love the fact that I've never been in any of those countries, yet those builds are the more relatable thing I've ever seen (irl and in TS4)

[@guadacaram]

The architecture nerd in me wants to say "actually that's not a casa chorizo, that's a specific typology with two to three patios" but. It's so beautiful. I know like three houses exactly like that. The boy's room doesn't have enough futbol paraphernalia though. Y EL ASADOR ME MUEROOOOO. so good

[@rockbellmakeup]

Gracias por la aclaración pero si, me vi bastante limitada por el juego para hacer una casa chorizo real, pero espero haber capturado la idea general... la parrilla es funcional pero no en la versión de la galería pues me di cuenta después. En Curseforge la tengo full funcional. Puse todo lo de futbol que encontré, EA debería ponerse las pilas y agregar un poster de Messi o algo

[@Alduh.]

@@rockbellmakeup SOS UNA GENIA, te amo, es lo suficientemente chorizo para que me despertara toda la nostalgia del mundo, gracias 🙏🏻😭

[@rockbellmakeup]

@@Alduh. Awww que lindo, gracias!

[@Janne_J]

22:18 that's a traditional finnish outdoors game called "mölkky". the goal is a bit like bowling, but a bit different. you throw a wooden thick stick thing at little numbered pins and try to score exactly 50 points (100 in some cases or 25). if you go over, you restart, and first to get to said amount of points wins. its a classic, often played at these summer cottages, so it doesnt surprise me that the builder added that in

[@haytoo]

I’d like anything from Subsaharan Africa to be represented in the Sims

[@angielskaherbatka8082]

And for the polish building, it has SO MUCH nostalgia. As a person whos living with my granma i can tell that the "old style" apartment was SO ACCURATE and also, love the meblościanka ❤

[@GabriellaKombouras-j8z]

I wish they represented Greek culture as well it fustrates me that other cultures and religions are not on the game already

[@moshu9952]

as a danish person who used to vacation a lot in Sweden---- that summer house was like a heroin shot of nostalgia straight into my veins holy shit

[@Trassel242]

The new kitchen stuff pack made me really happy to see, as I’m Swedish and a lot of the things in it are things you often find in Sweden. One thing I miss from TS3 at the very least is the maypole, which is a holiday tradition in Scandinavia and some other European countries, centred around celebrating plant growth, greenery and the beauty of summer. I just hope and wish that the entire world can get at least a little bit of representation, it’s so unfair that the games have been so focused on a very specific part of American culture/life. If EA doesn’t really know how to represent certain parts of the world, they should ask and hire people from those places so we can get it done right.

[@Space0fox]

Well.. We are white, thats why they dont want included European cultures. And sorry, thats all.

[@thegreatalpaca]

Omg as a Finn, the last build is soo great, good job whoever did it! And yes, why do all the outhouse doors ALWAYS have huge windows?? 😂 Also the mosquitoes, mölkky (the wooden pin game) and the sauna, chef's kiss 🤌

[@sinrenfield]

Can you please do more of these?! I would love love love to see more builds from around the world!

[@ola1532]

Parents sleeping in the living room is soo acurate for Polish apartment!

[@mandeledits8570]

The Finnish one instantly teleported me to my familys Summers trips, oh god the nostalgia

[@aino211]

the wooden blocks at 22:14 are supposed to mimic a popular summer outdoor game called ”mölkky” where you basically just throw one of the pieces and try to get points. its a very finnish game haha. i absolutely adored the finnish build and made me miss the summers when i was a kid and went to our relatives summer cottage

[@coraholunder1989]

I love that Polish block. It looks exactly like East German blocks. And like Russian ones I guess. The Soviets built those exact blocks everywhere they could. 😂

[@adaki8587]

Yup they exist to maximise the space people could live in, not to be pretty xD but in my experience a good chunk of them (at least in poland) are now repainted and have really cool murals on the side :)

[@RedHatMeg]

A true Eastern Bloc experience!

[@RoyalCutieSuki]

4:09 THE WAY THE WHOLE APARTMENT IS LIKE MY APARTMENT 😭 I’m also born in Italy and it’s very accurate!

[@insertusernamehere3173]

I've been hearing some people are upset because of the sims only every calling packs or kits that advertise more inclusive hair styles and protective head garments, "urban". A lot of people are uncomfortable with any reference to black people being called Urban. A lot of people are mentioning that urban just means a population dense city but I can also see where people are coming from. I would like to see people receive more diversity without having to pay extra.

[@aMenaccee]

I love love LOVE that you showed the Polish blocks, I never see polish anything 😭 tysm for showing it

[@nemesilde]

14:41 i love how she always says she's Arab but failed to remember that those are Arab numbers 😹 I love you Sarah 🫶🏻

[@elih6087]

They are actually from India, brought to Arabia

[@nemesilde]

@@elih6087 It makes sense, but we always called them Arab numbers. At least that's what they taught me in elementary school

[@CherryDoughnut]

So the wood pieces on the ground in the Finnish summer cottage are a game called "mölkky". Irl each one has a number and you throw another piece of wood to tumble them and you add the numbers you hit. The pieces get set back up where they fell so they'll get further away from each other and thus harder to hit.

[@dariarussu686]

The most wholesome and interesting building contest ever!! Please do a part two, we need more culture representations!!

[@katbee8120]

The Taipei build reminded me so much of the side streets and smaller districts in Shanghai. That was my every day for six years and I miss it.

[@ElmMagic]

The polish build is so similar to the russian apartment buildings, and the Zabka looks a little too much like fix price and pyatruchka combined that it brought back so many memories of my uni days in the country😊

[@laco403]

I loved that Slavic representation!

[@giulf3der957]

Italian person here🤚 I actually never saw the bathroom split in two rooms, I was told by my sis there was one in France, but France is not Italy😂 8:52 Well, I guess it depends on which region it is, how old is the house and the style it's in? Btw unfortunately TheSims has no bidet, so the bathrooms always feel so empty😔

[@jahanshadi1934]

I guess it depends the region, the town, the family. I live in south France not far from Italy and I’ve never seen something like divided bathrooms

[@giulf3der957]

@@jahanshadi1934 possibly! It was a mansion the one my sister saw, maybe it's only for some houses🤔 She said there was a separate tiny room with just the toilet

[@jahanshadi1934]

@@giulf3der957 aaah yes I see ! Sorry I misunderstood something. Actually, it’s better to have separated tiny room just for toilets (practical and hygiene reasons) and in old houses or appartements the bidet is a thing. Nowadays, having separated toilets can be a « luxury » cause it means more space. And for the bidet, it’s not a thing anymore, it’s not trendy and it’s often considered weird for younger generations (like it’s weird to clean just that part of yourself, personally I find it great as a woman) and of course, here too, it means more space needed in the bathroom. In our old family house, we had a bidet. And a separated toilet in a room long like a narrow corridor (but I think it was the fantasy of the architect depending on the floor plan XD) Now that we live in an appartement (smaller) we have still the chance to have the separated toilets next to the bathroom, but the bathroom is very tiny (just the space for a bathtub, a sink and a little closet).

[@giulf3der957]

@@jahanshadi1934 ohh so you do have separate rooms for bathroom and toilet! Cool cool👀 Btw for bidet i was referring to italy, here almost all houses have it. Honestly, when I travel, the thing I miss the most is the bidet, I don't understand how y'all can live without it!! It's so useful during that time of the month, but also a quick way to wash yourself (half on bidet, half on sink) when you don't have tine to shower (do y'all shower 50 times a day lol?) It was funny to see all countres rushing for toilet paper during cov1d, while we italians were like: "pffft *laughs in bidet *" 😂

[@jahanshadi1934]

@@giulf3der957 true true ! Bidet is life saving, a great invention !! I don’t understand why we dropped it (I just can guess is for saving space and money ?)

[@camillawind8359]

Can you do a part two of these cultural builds? I would love to see more of these.

[@nellitheretrogamer8666]

I'm Finnish and I really appreciate how in that last one, the pond seems to be filled with leaves and other crap that the owners haven't bothered to clean up. Yeah. That is very accurate. Especially because properly cleaning lakes and ponds sometimes involves heavy machinery that the owners of course don't own themselves, so they'd need to hire someone to do that, but since the cottage is in the middle of nowhere, the machines can't actually get there very easily, and it costs too much anyways... Easy solution: just ignore it. Let your kids deal with the problem after they inherit the cottage.

[@chandamara]

YES! I've been working on a whole ancestry arc and have ancestors from many different cultures but run into so little (or no) content. So excited to find something for my Slavic roots!!!! Now to find something for my Romani ancestors...

[@WigThatFlewOffFloptok]

22:15 the logs resemble a game called ”mölkky”. It’s a finnish game where you throw a log into those other logs and get points. Each one of those logs has their own amount of points. In finland we usually play it at our cottages. I personally don’t have one but I play it at my home. It’s kind of a little cozy summer game😅

[@nataliasliwa7006]

POOOLSKAA GÓROOOM!!!🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

[@selemat8402]

i wanna see you review more of the submitted builds! its just so cool to see all the different cultures and im sure there are many more that people submitted :)

[@patchedpocket]

Part 2 plss I need to see all cultures ❤🥺