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<blockquote data-quote="The Fighter-Cricket" data-source="post: 7757413" data-attributes="member: 32852"><p>Haha, I'm wondering what you might mean with "a marxist view of history that is still en vogue in Europe", but alas, I have been told earlier that we should not discuss politics here. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>About the point with xenophobia and "the other". Yeah, I would share your sentiment on that topic for the most part. My favorite example of this dynamic is the following one: </p><p></p><p>There is this Indian epic called Ramayana. Its a long poem about the fight of a king/god Rama and his rival, the demon king Ravana. So, in this story Ravana is the king of the Rakshasas (that's where the D&D monster got his name from, btw). The Rakshasas are a bunch of demons with fangs and horns and mostly ugly, annoying dudes. The live in the south of India. More specifically in Sri Lanka. The hero fights his way down from north India, where his home is, down to the south to Sri Lanka. There he fights those Rakshasas and saves the day, I won't go into detail. </p><p>Now, the question is: What was up with those who lived in the south? Where are they in this story? The story only tells us about those strange Rakshasa monsters, not about human kingdoms or at least cities inhabited by humans. </p><p>Wait... do you mean that this north Indian epic suggests that in south India (where they speak languages from a quite different language family then in the north and are also mostly darker skinned) there have been no people, just... monsters? </p><p></p><p>That's what I would call, making your neighbor into an orc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Fighter-Cricket, post: 7757413, member: 32852"] Haha, I'm wondering what you might mean with "a marxist view of history that is still en vogue in Europe", but alas, I have been told earlier that we should not discuss politics here. ;) About the point with xenophobia and "the other". Yeah, I would share your sentiment on that topic for the most part. My favorite example of this dynamic is the following one: There is this Indian epic called Ramayana. Its a long poem about the fight of a king/god Rama and his rival, the demon king Ravana. So, in this story Ravana is the king of the Rakshasas (that's where the D&D monster got his name from, btw). The Rakshasas are a bunch of demons with fangs and horns and mostly ugly, annoying dudes. The live in the south of India. More specifically in Sri Lanka. The hero fights his way down from north India, where his home is, down to the south to Sri Lanka. There he fights those Rakshasas and saves the day, I won't go into detail. Now, the question is: What was up with those who lived in the south? Where are they in this story? The story only tells us about those strange Rakshasa monsters, not about human kingdoms or at least cities inhabited by humans. Wait... do you mean that this north Indian epic suggests that in south India (where they speak languages from a quite different language family then in the north and are also mostly darker skinned) there have been no people, just... monsters? That's what I would call, making your neighbor into an orc. [/QUOTE]
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