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No, those concepts don't exist but almost everything in 40K is inspired or a tribute to some real life culture. That's what we're talking about.

The people of Glavia, such as the aforementioned Betancourt family from the Eisenhorne and Ravenor series, are black, an considered the best pilots the Imperium can offer.

There's obviously a bit of Star Wars Correllian (Han Solo) thrown in there, though through the use of their cybernetic implants rather than some genetic trait making them excellent pilots, but, there you have it. An ethnic "minority" (except on Glavia) that are instrumental in the success of the servants of the Emperor.

The White Scars SM chapter, and their descendants, are obviously based on the Mongol hordes, and a number of side-characters in many BL novels are mentioned to be of various non-white ethnic backgrounds.

If you're looking for racial bias in 40K, I don't think you're going to find it, at least not as easily or overt as one might hope to find such a thing.

Most citizens of the Empire are probably "white"; then again, living under a steel sky in the gloomy shadows of a hive-spire while interbreeding with "white" humans through ten-plus millennia of history will cause other racial traits to recede, excepting planets where such ethnic groups are the majority population (like Glavia), in which case it only reinforces those very same traits.

The Imperium seems to have moved beyond the petty racism that plagues modern-day Earth. No one cares what color your skin is when there are those pointy-eared *freaks* lurking just past the moon.

Aye, be glad that, in the 41st millenium, Mankind has moved past killing and fighting over the petty differences of skin color and moved on to more worthwhile things like killing traitor, heritic, mutant, and Xeno scum.

What I'm more interested in than skin color is hair color...Who cares about olive, black, white or red skin....what really is significant is who is doing better...blondes, brunettes or redheads!

Thank god 38000 years has finally cut out the most incredibly stupid and ignorant way of classifying people...if only we could speed up the process here. It's almost summer time...damn! I'm going to get a tan, and change classifications until winter! >(