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Jordan depicted the (main) characters (90-95+% as white (and heterosexual)) in the books, and he wrote a list too (a few examples):
Egwene: Audrey Hepburn at age 18
Nynaeve: a young Jacqueline Bisset
Min: Isabella Rossellini
Lan: Liam Neeson in one of his craggier roles
Siuan (after stilling): Renee Zellweger (before appearance change)
Padan Fain: Alan Rickman
Perrin: a young Val Kilmer [never mind his physique]
or this information is interesting too:
Q: How big are the cities in The Wheel of Time?
Robert Jordan: Tar Valon has 500,000 people and cities like Caemlyn and Tear are around 300,000 or so. I've envisioned a seventeenth century society and you've got to remember that for those times 300,000 would be huge. Some Asian cities of that period had populations near one million but nothing in Europe was even close.
So, according to him, the whole story takes place in 'Europe'...
Oh man, this hurts and it could have happened.
I remember seeing that. Just goes to further show the contempt they have for source material. They do meet some people of other races/cultures but like you said the vast majority in the books are white