It's should be removed, it's had no purpose, idea that player would like their character come from nowhere, stranger and mystery background that change cross the land, more or less.
Very odd when I am doing character creation, it's parents is very oddly looking and not match of main character and out of place, like red hair with africa styles type while main character brown hair in nice order euro/western styles.
I can see why it's should be removed. It's don't see we can control over parents so it's not look out of place.