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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8351243" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Yep. I'm also closer to my second cousins than most people are, having been on several family trips and at family reunions with them.Yep. It was attempting to bring part of their culture into the game in a "good" way, but had a lot of stereotypes, offensive terminology, and other issues attached with it (like the exoticizing and alienation that you mentioned).Definitely. I think it mostly boils down to how marginalized the culture has been (and currently is) from a modern viewpoint, which is why no one is saying Mario is the new Tokio. Borrowing from other cultures to make money is always going to be a shade of gray, but it gets worse the more marginalized the ethnic group is and the way that you depict their culture.Yep. There are a lot of misunderstandings about Norse mythology and other mythologies like this (as a Greek example, with people always depicting Zeus as a good guy and Hades as a bad guy). Also, horned helmets are just kind of cool, so it's not really anything to take offense at, anyways. (I'm always more puzzled/turned off when people give dwarves Scottish accents.)</blockquote>