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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Catolias" data-source="post: 8033041" data-attributes="member: 7017236">Culture does need to be sensitively treated and respected. I agree with you that diverse representation is needed.The problem, though, is how can we ensure culture is sensitivity and respectfully treated and we see diverse representation when there is nothing that helps guide someone?But from what I can see, I’m not assured that removal achieves a more sensitive and respectful approach to different cultures.First, it presumes individuals have the time and inclination to conduct a cultural sensitivity analysis of the fantasyworld they are creating.Secondly, if I don’t help someone to learn by giving them the tools, doesn’t that mean I’m complicit in allowing racism? By accepting that I am willing to accept someone playing their home game with racist tropes, then I am also accepting that that same person can perpetuate the type of explicit and casual racism others have mentioned in this thread. Reading guides are one step, but may act as a deterrent for the reason above - time and inclination.Finally, having WotC remove OA helps them avoid responsibility for correcting their errors. Removal is an easy answer to a complex problem and one that WotC will happily take given they have shown little interest in providing updates or new sourcebooks for the worlds it’s players have asked for - Darksun, Spelljammer, Greyhawk.WotC really should be made to reissue an updated book. This would do more to correct misappropriation than removing the book will ever do. And while they’re at it, WotC could expand “Asia” to include the diversity of all that continent’s regions, not just one seen limited to Sho’gun Japan or Imperial Han China.</blockquote>

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