Telling the host of a party that you do not like a song they are playing and then expecting them to literally stop the music for everybody no questions asked does not seem a reasonable expectation.
It comes across as an entitled and self-centered expectation.
Really? I think he makes a decent point. If I was running a jukebox at my house, and a song came on that someone went "ugh, that song." I'd probably offer to change it. Maybe if it was a song I liked I'd ask "what's wrong with this song?" but I wouldn't be resistant to changing it. It is probably one of hundreds on tracks, what do I care if we skip this one for something else?
If I may, your entire argument for being sensitive/cautious/other to popularising the native culture of latinamerica rests on:
1) It is not a dead culture, old/ancient practises are still being practised, including those related to the deities;
2) The people exist today do not have the means to popularise their own culture (literally the basis of
@PsyzhranV2's argument for Asian cultural appropriation); and
3) Nature of change from polytheism to monotheism was recent and violent, memory is fresh.
How do you think Greeks feel when they see the pop-culture machine produce RPG setting after RPG setting, movie after movie, series after series, MM after MM, ...etc - capitalising on Greek culture, mythology and history, which Greece cannot possibly hope to accomplish? Greece is but one country Latinamerica is more than a continent, and yet the former's wealth has been mined like NO OTHER.
And yet you eagerly feast day-after-day, month-after-month, year-after-year, decade-after-decade on the Hellenistic products of the pop-culture machine, not caring one iota of the trauma/wounds of Greeks while rising to offense at the slightest (like these long-winded and unforgiving youtubers) when one pokes in the direction of your ancestors (and to be clear, for a fantasy game). The level of hypocrisy that exists by those taking offense with their modern fancy terms like
cultural-appropriation is truly mind blowing!!!
I think you are missing a rather salient point that Moonsong made, if you don't mind me pointing it out.
The Greek and Hellenistic period you are talking about came to an end around 2,300 years ago.
The wounds Moonsong is talking about regarding Spanish colonialism, that period of history came to an end about 200 years ago.
You are comparing a literal order of magnitude, a difference of over two thousand years. And during that two thousand years, greek thought, history, government was studied and preserved in depth. We can talk with confidence about the differences between Athenian thought and culture, Spartant thought and culture, and Thebian thought and culture across centuries of history.
Meanwhile, I didn't even know that the Aztec weren't the ruling tribe, and that there were even other groups of tribes from the same time period. Let alone their names. And I barely know anything about their beliefs or myths.
For example, I bet you can recognize the figure of Helen of Troy easily, right? Echo? Arachne? Atalanta? I learned about some of those in school.
If it wasn't for an amazing book I own by Jason Porath, I would have no clue about the Mesoamerican Myth of Xtabay (which is amazing) or the Brazilian legend of Iara.
That is a big difference in how the culture is treated, respected and known.
Finally, I think a lot of people on the one side forget the major positive in all this:
Without the pop-culture machine we would know much less about each other.
The gamers that are drawn to OA, Mystara and other strongly-earth inspired settings/books are those that are interested and likely to do further research beyond fantasy game books, that appreciate and respect these cultures and will likely draw others into their gaming tables to learn and love the way they do.
Great, so they should be the loudest voices in agreeing with us that we should respect these cultures, to treat them well, and not just slapdash some vague, innacurate stereotypes on top of them and act like it doesn't matter if we trample all over the actual substance of their culture.
No one is saying we should never published another book on Fantasy Japan or Fantasy China. That would be a travesty. But, instead of having western writers just pull out some 70's wuxia film, lets do some actual research, lets involve the game writers from that culture and make sure we aren't saying something stupid and offensive or making a dumb mistake.
Let's have our gaming books able to be looked to as doing a good job, instead of shrugging and saying that the quality of the writing doesn't matter, because it does.