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Coyote & Crow: Stories of the Free Lands: An Interview with Connor Alexander
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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8750265" data-attributes="member: 7025997"><p>Everyone has the right to their hang-ups; I've certainly got mine. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> But, you raise an interesting question. Japan is an industrialized country (which it did amazingly fast) with the third-largest nominal GDP in the world (fourth-largest by purchasing-power parity) that successfully exports its culture and profits off it (look at anime and manga), appropriates other cultures while still giving the results its own very recognizable spin (again, look at anime and manga), and even has engaged in its own imperialism from time to time, even during the recent period of global Western imperialism in everyone's minds. (Before that <em>every</em> part of the world conquered neighboring countries--China and the various caliphates come to mind.) They're kind of subservient to the USA militarily after playing the great-power game and losing, but then so is Germany, and anyway most non-great powers have to placate a great power or play one off against the other--that's been the rule of power politics throughout the ages.</p><p></p><p>So...you'd probably not have the same feelings about playing, say, The Dark Eye, or a game set in medieval Germany. Why not?</p><p></p><p>Or...what about a Chinese-themed game? There's a small one based on <em>Outlaws of the Water Margin</em> that's free (the author isn't of Chinese ancestry though). China may have been humiliated for a century by Western powers (and later Japan), but is now a superpower that if not a peer competitor with the USA in every regard is rapidly getting there. Don't forget they were ahead of Europe for much of the first millennium CE and the first half of the second. Famous pop cultural figures and the WHO are now afraid to mention the existence of Taiwan.</p><p></p><p>I'm guessing if you'd feel bad about playing in Rokugan, same for China (or Kara-Tur). How come?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8750265, member: 7025997"] Everyone has the right to their hang-ups; I've certainly got mine. ;) But, you raise an interesting question. Japan is an industrialized country (which it did amazingly fast) with the third-largest nominal GDP in the world (fourth-largest by purchasing-power parity) that successfully exports its culture and profits off it (look at anime and manga), appropriates other cultures while still giving the results its own very recognizable spin (again, look at anime and manga), and even has engaged in its own imperialism from time to time, even during the recent period of global Western imperialism in everyone's minds. (Before that [I]every[/I] part of the world conquered neighboring countries--China and the various caliphates come to mind.) They're kind of subservient to the USA militarily after playing the great-power game and losing, but then so is Germany, and anyway most non-great powers have to placate a great power or play one off against the other--that's been the rule of power politics throughout the ages. So...you'd probably not have the same feelings about playing, say, The Dark Eye, or a game set in medieval Germany. Why not? Or...what about a Chinese-themed game? There's a small one based on [I]Outlaws of the Water Margin[/I] that's free (the author isn't of Chinese ancestry though). China may have been humiliated for a century by Western powers (and later Japan), but is now a superpower that if not a peer competitor with the USA in every regard is rapidly getting there. Don't forget they were ahead of Europe for much of the first millennium CE and the first half of the second. Famous pop cultural figures and the WHO are now afraid to mention the existence of Taiwan. I'm guessing if you'd feel bad about playing in Rokugan, same for China (or Kara-Tur). How come? [/QUOTE]
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