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Let me take the bait and post this.
Gamefreak seems to at least take some semblance of what they see as realism to a region to add flavor so they don't have to build it from scratch. The first four regions based on Japan have Japanese based characters except for the ones who aren't explicitly stated to be like Surge. We all know how they like to alter their looks with an anime style, so please don't turn this into a we wuz argument. They could get away with this due to racial homogeny. Aqua's redesign is an exception, but as a reminder, southern Japan, the area that Hoenn is based off of also has Okinawans. The magma/ aqua base is even located right at the overlap of the groups so that it could be either in the remakes. You could see it as just tan japs or Okinawans, but please don't be like the retarded I want to say certain Americans and maybe parts of Europe and start spouting off x is my nigger etc at the slightest sign of dark skin. Say what you want about Magma's race as well, but you know how anime art style works as well as the obsession with colored hair.
