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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Koloth" data-source="post: 7756594" data-attributes="member: 6706231">I hope I am wrong but in today's publishing environment in the US, using material from other then European or recent American history is pretty much a no-no.  I wound up at a Writer's Convention(the friend that planned the trip thought it was a Fan convention).  It was a very interesting experience.  In every panel, the term Cultural Appropriation came up and was discussed as an evil don't do.  Reinforced by several publishers or publishing company representatives flatly stating they would not publish a story they thought used ideas from non European/American sources unless said use was 'Proper'.  I also noticed the CA term quickly came up in the Africa product discussion linked to in the original post.  Hopefully European publishers have a bit more freedom.</blockquote>