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Cubicle 7 Also Announces A New 'C7d20' System
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<blockquote data-quote="Teo Twawki" data-source="post: 8920867" data-attributes="member: 7033305"><p>That's a rather exhaustive examination of the equivalencies in what amounts to a single game, and would be worthy of an academic examination, to be sure. But since I'm only guest lecturing in someone else's class, I wouldn't have final say in adding it. The focus isn't rpgs specifically, merely finding medias with cross-cultural authorship (one ethnicity or demographic writing about another; examples from literature and music: <em>those Brit metal heads teach more about American history in 4 minutes than all the years of middle & high school!</em>), cultural assumptions about various media and history (<em>"Me & Julio" is about what!? </em>/<em> that's not a pro-Confederate song, it's written by a First Nation Canadian Jew</em>), the dichotomy of railing against one perceived transgression while rationalizing and/or ignoring others (<em>racist author I don't like so must be bad / oh, I like it, can't be racist</em>), and why, especially in an institution of learning, some cultures are openly criticized, while others are deemed taboo to discuss.</p><p></p><p>My personal goal--sure as it is--would be the same as when I was teaching at University: to teach how to turn off personal judgments to experience something in full and then, afterward, critically examine it for validity and benefit. Even crappy-art and racist-material has its value in educating the reader/viewer, if nothing else, to show what to avoid and do better. And, I hope to continue the debate of can an artist produce "good" art of lasting value if they are concerned about offended anyone... but I digress. Constantly. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>Given the professor, myself, and about a fifth of the class are not US-born and is incredibly diverse, the discussion is probably going to have a less predictable trajectory than one of mostly homogenic US-students. This is not a denigrative projection, just an observable theory.</p><p></p><p>Your link could serve as a foundation for a semester of study. And I will pass it along. Cultural depictions in tabletop and video games is a topic of interest for the reigning (and tenured, which means they can get away with topics the non-tenured cannot) professor. Thanks for pointing it out to me. And your Balkan-related suggestions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teo Twawki, post: 8920867, member: 7033305"] That's a rather exhaustive examination of the equivalencies in what amounts to a single game, and would be worthy of an academic examination, to be sure. But since I'm only guest lecturing in someone else's class, I wouldn't have final say in adding it. The focus isn't rpgs specifically, merely finding medias with cross-cultural authorship (one ethnicity or demographic writing about another; examples from literature and music: [I]those Brit metal heads teach more about American history in 4 minutes than all the years of middle & high school![/I]), cultural assumptions about various media and history ([I]"Me & Julio" is about what!? [/I]/[I] that's not a pro-Confederate song, it's written by a First Nation Canadian Jew[/I]), the dichotomy of railing against one perceived transgression while rationalizing and/or ignoring others ([I]racist author I don't like so must be bad / oh, I like it, can't be racist[/I]), and why, especially in an institution of learning, some cultures are openly criticized, while others are deemed taboo to discuss. My personal goal--sure as it is--would be the same as when I was teaching at University: to teach how to turn off personal judgments to experience something in full and then, afterward, critically examine it for validity and benefit. Even crappy-art and racist-material has its value in educating the reader/viewer, if nothing else, to show what to avoid and do better. And, I hope to continue the debate of can an artist produce "good" art of lasting value if they are concerned about offended anyone... but I digress. Constantly. :p Given the professor, myself, and about a fifth of the class are not US-born and is incredibly diverse, the discussion is probably going to have a less predictable trajectory than one of mostly homogenic US-students. This is not a denigrative projection, just an observable theory. Your link could serve as a foundation for a semester of study. And I will pass it along. Cultural depictions in tabletop and video games is a topic of interest for the reigning (and tenured, which means they can get away with topics the non-tenured cannot) professor. Thanks for pointing it out to me. And your Balkan-related suggestions. [/QUOTE]
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