Absolutely. Is that in dispute?Can we avoid the racist jargon "oriental"?
EDIT: My point is that the word "caucasian" is meaningful - in this context - only within the discredited framework of 19th century scientific racism.
Absolutely. Is that in dispute?Can we avoid the racist jargon "oriental"?
Good. By some people. Yes.Absolutely. Is that in dispute?
And now how about actually acknowledging my request.Good. By some people. Yes.
Who says I have not.And now how about actually acknowledging my request.
Which region? The Caucasus?Who says I have not.
I am descended from that region. But I am mixed. So I do not get to belong to any group. This has been made clear many times.
I don't think Caucasian here means "person from the Caucasus mountains or neighbouring regions".Writing of the other things have been from Caucasians. Written by Caucasians.
Other matters have been traditionally written by Caucasians. Writing for other cultures. This is not balanced.
Involvement of cultural consultants would be a start.
Depends on what perspective it is written from. Victory clouds history. Even defeat clouds history.I ask because when it comes to racist presentations of theme and history omission and disregard can be important considerations.
"...The mysterious and exotic Orient, land of spices and warlords, has at last opened her gates to the West."I think the real complaint against OA is more along the lines of cultural appropriation, a lack of proper curation, etc. Which is a complaint about racist processes of cultural production but - even if sound - doesn't in itself establish that the work itself is racist.
Kara-Tur was made part of FR, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you meant Faerun. you can't say "where's France?" and have me point at a specific nation in Faerun. that's definitely not the case in Kara-Tur, you can say "where's Korea?" and someone can point at the exact nation in Kara-Tur that is the Korea analogue.Isn't FR still the best-selling setting for FRPGing? And it is chock-full of real world cultures.
this is certainly true, and OA is a horrible example of this.Not every depiction of tropes from folk tales and popular culture is a racist stereotype.
it doesn't matter whether or not if something is hateful, it's still based in some very dated and sometimes awful stereotypes. this misses the point, too, Kwan's big issue is WotC claims they will be more culturally sensitive and yet still make money off a culturally insensitive book. WotC should stop selling it. it's not like he's calling for a book burning. hell if preservation is an issue (and it definitely is an issue) WotC can just start giving it away for free. just give it away for free, no profit off of that, and everyone can still download it for the sake of archiving.I am not particularly concerned if WotC stops selling OA or does not. That's basically a commercial decision. I don't think OA is a work of race hatred. Nor do I think it is a valuable cultural artefact that needs to be available to everyone for posterity. In that way I don't think the comparison to important American novels really works.
WotC should stop selling it. it's not like he's calling for a book burning. hell if preservation is an issue (and it definitely is an issue) WotC can just start giving it away for free. just give it away for free, no profit off of that, and everyone can still download it for the sake of archiving.