| Shanobi said: ... I didn't think you were raving mad about it, or anything. It's just weird the hubbub that things bring about now, especially with the web. The incident with RE5, and people screaming racism was, I think, the absolute peak of this insanity. Nobody seemed to mind that a bunch of spaniards got wasted in RE4. ... |
Well, to be honest RE4 was quite different:
- Spanish people are not still elaborating an ethnic history in which the most relevant subject is oppression until very recent past from other ethnicities
- The villagers in RE4 were not depicted as stereotypes. Let them speak english or french and you could say the game was set in Oxfordshire or Normandy. If they were all wielding muletas and dressed up as toreadors I bet Spanish would have something to say about the game. In RE5 you got body-painted, weed-gown-clad, shield-masked, spear-throwing villagers...
I understand that the Japanese culture has historically been a secluded one, but that doesn't excuse them from learning today to go beyond bigotry. Asian-american people hated the Mickey Rooney character in "Breakfast at Tiffany" and rightly so. I guess we can ask Japanese works that depict other cultures the same respect that was asked for after that western work... and that came up in '61.
The Foreigner: [taunting the crowd] I am not from here! I have my own customs! Look at my crazy passport!
From Futurama - "Raging Bender"
