• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I mean

    Every culture does that, though? If anything, Americans appreciating the works of the Greeks is as widespread and diverse as a culture can possibly get.

    Every couple of years Chinese make a new Sun Wukong move, TV show, or videogame. Tibetan Monks and the Dali Lama are a huge cultural phenomenon all over the world. Wuxia/Xianxia based on old Taoism writings and diagrams are popular in all forms of media. Period Dramas about the old aristocracy in Asia are a huge genre.

    Koreans shove Korean dragons and Dokaebi into every medium they can.

    Japanese love them some Shinto priestess main characters and Yokai stories.

    Arabia’s got thieves guilds, Solomon, and genies and other creatures of fire and wind.

    Russia has Baba Yaga and Rasputin depictions.

    Germany and western Europe have Fairy Tales, northern Europe is obsessed with Trolls.

    India has a strong and proud history of racism, classism, Hinduism, nepotism, sexism, I don’t really remember where I was going with this point, tbh.

    Africa… Honestly, Africa might need more time to recover, idk what their cultural epics entail… I do like Shaka Zulu’s vibe, tho.

    That’s how culture works. The differences and uniqueness make them worth experiencing, and why people work so hard to preserve them in perpetuity across many generations. Except India. Idk y tf they’re doing that shit.

    They could all appreciate some other shit, yeah, but that’s not how culture works.

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      13 days ago

      fucking crazy to denigrate South Asia like that when you made the effort to respect culture for all the other regions you mentioned. I guess all the other countries you mentioned don’t have a history of racism, classism, nepotism, sexism or religion?