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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8076401" data-attributes="member: 22779">I don't know.  Should you be?  Is the use of European names somehow derogatory or denigrating to groups of people in some specifically definable way?  Can you tell me, specifically, what is offensive about the use of those words, within the context of how they are being used in the game?No?Then, no, you shouldn't be offended.  There's nothing to be offended about.OTOH, I've presented SPECIFICALLY what the problem is with Oriental Adventures.  I'm not using vague language and pretending that I'm somehow saying something that is furthering the conversation.  My specific problem with OA is that it claims to be a setting guide covering multiple cultures that uses a single culture (Japanese) to stand for all of the other cultures that are meant to be present.  This is offensive for two reasons.  One, the historical reason where Imperial Japan attempted the forced assimilation of both Korea and China using EXACTLY this same approach - all things Chinese or Korean were replaced by all things Japanese, and, secondly, because this mirrors the American and Western views that Japan is the only culture that matters in the East and everything else can be simply ignored - what difference does it make, they all look the same goes the argument.So, for the slow of reading, because I am so sick and bloody tired of this same sort of crap being brought up over and over again.  If you cannot be specific and point to exactly why something is offensive when you are claiming offense, then, in all likelihood, you are simply trolling the topic in hopes of derailing conversation down yet another semantic rabbit hole.  In other words, if you cannot be specific, then it is up to you to either find a way to be specific, or step back, do some reading, get a bit of education in the issue.</blockquote>

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