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If this image really represent everything that's wrong in OA then we can pretty much remove the warning advice from the PDF and be done with it. Because, frankly, I don't see ANYTHING wrong about it. There are pandas. Dressed in Japanese attire. Seriously? I guess we all know that pandas...

I get back in the discussion because i found this post interesting. I think the point here is that criticism is quite different from integralism. I read many people just say: you can't do this. Even if it's art and fiction (I guess we all agre that it would be a different matter if we were...

We do lots fiction, books, movies and comics on WW2 and the Vietnam War and they are both less than 100 years old. In Grant Morrison's The Invisibles one plot regarded the assassination of princess Diana by the government agents as part of a conspiracy to put her son, whos father was an alien...

All those people can just read different books. Actually i think it's an awful and terrible example. What you described is a REAL LIFE experience. We ere talking about fiction. You know, as not real. You just described violence. Real violence. And the guys that did that to you are horrible...

Please note that with these straitjackets to creativity we would not have 90% of literature, music and film in the world. How would you treat Preacher, or The Invisibles? Or JoJo Rabbit and Iron Moon?

It can surely do so. But if I do not want to educate, why should I be forced to to it? And what i wanted to tell, is that if you do something freely, because you like it, then it's entertainment. Some don't like to be scared. Some other people go see horror movies voluntarily. And, well, being...

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Then, as often does, it ultimately and unfortunately fails. True, if one does not want to learn, there's not much you can do. Still if the school does not give you the means to learn, it's even worse. All you listed are forms of entertainment. If I like to be provoked, i'll choose media and...

Yes, since Sardinia is a region of Italy and we usually consider it a dialect of Italian (it's not, but actually many "dialects" of Italy are actually distinct languages) it always slips me. I also remember that much depend on the way you rank the language. If you look at the morphology, the...

I wholehearted agree that some other word to indicate a culture with a lower technology than ancient Greece instead of "savage" would be more appropriate. it fails me to find a better word. All I can think of are inadequate or nowadays considered offensive. Aboriginal, native, primitive... it's...

The difference is that the role, the mission of school is to educate people. If it can't, it has failed. The role of fiction is to entertain. You can entertain while educating and educate when you entertain, but that's another story.

The "latin" in Latinoamerica is just a misnomer. A tag, a label that got stuck and keeps being there regardless of the original or intended meaning. It happens all the time. Heck, I am told I'm Caucasian but I can parely point the Caucasus on the map! Following that reasoning there should also...

I said Mexican just because if I'm not mistaken all of the Aztec civilization rested on what is nowadays the United States of Mexico, there was no subtext involved, but if it helps clarity I'll try to use just Aztec from now on. All of this is very interesting, and I think there's a place for...

I repeat that's not my field so I take with great attention your explanation. I got mine from some sources but they are definitely not scientific so I don't take them for granted. Let's agree that the main difference from a generalization and a stereotype is that the second is fixed. Well, in...

Could be, don't remember the name. EDIT: I admit that this is a comical anime, so much is permitted. still it's typical of many manga/comic/RPG to have characters that can use absolutely harmless objects much more effectively that ordinary weapon jst so. I can name Bullseye and anything from...

From what I know, which is very little because it's not my field of study, stereotyping is not innately bad. Sure, it over simplifies, but for some is a necessary part how our learning process work. We need to simplify, generalize and categorize to make use of information. A dog bite me => Dogs...

Fine enough. I can't use twitter. Never did and never will. I thought I could find the info in the link. Thanks for helping. I read the excerpts. Yes, they are heavily stereotyped. Really heavily stereotyped. On the line I'd say, though, than any similarly themed product made in the '80s. But...

I'd agree with you fully if this were a book on actual Asia. But it's not. It's a book on a fantasy stereotyped movie Asia It's not art's or entertainment's job to educate people. It's school. If at school you did not learn enough after primary school to know that not all Asians have long thin...

The lines that Voadam quoted are not EXAMPLES. Thei're CLAIMS. Without addressing the source material directly (quotation, paraphrases), they are unsupported claims. I read some of the comments below the tweet, hough. I found that a good half, both asian and not asian, were disagreeing with...

Was it something like the second cataclysm that led to the Age of mortals? Or that came later? Yes, the "end of the world" is often used as a last resort card to traw attention to a product or line that's slowly dying in order to see if it can be saved (and, let's admit, when fresh ideas start...