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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9450580" data-attributes="member: 6790260">If you think medieval Europe has gotten ANYWHERE near as bad as the treatment of Arabic/Islamic and Eastern (India/China/Japan primarily, but Southeast Asia and Polynesia have gotten it too), then you truly do not understand the depths to which Orientalism would stoop.There is no comparison. At best, you could argue that Celtic cultures have been flanderized like that--which wouldn't be too far off the mark, seeing as how the D&amp;D Druid has jack-all to do with the actual defunct Iron Age Celtic priestly caste, and the &quot;Barbarian&quot; is literally derived from a racist Greek term for foreigners (who the Greeks heard as saying &quot;bar bar bar&quot; rather than speaking civilized language, that is, Greek.) But medieval European culture? This is practically copied straight out of their own self-propaganda. The Paladin, for example. (Though it's worth noting, that was propaganda targeted at the knights themselves, not at the peasantry. After all, most peasants couldn't read. The tales of courtly romance and knightly honor were propaganda to get knights to behave themselves, because terrorizing the people who make your food and work your land is a bad idea.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9450580, member: 6790260"] If you think medieval Europe has gotten ANYWHERE near as bad as the treatment of Arabic/Islamic and Eastern (India/China/Japan primarily, but Southeast Asia and Polynesia have gotten it too), then you truly do not understand the depths to which Orientalism would stoop. There is no comparison. [I]At best[/I], you could argue that Celtic cultures have been flanderized like that--which wouldn't be too far off the mark, seeing as how the D&D Druid has jack-all to do with the actual defunct Iron Age Celtic priestly caste, and the "Barbarian" is literally derived from a racist Greek term for foreigners (who the Greeks heard as saying "bar bar bar" rather than speaking [I]civilized language[/I], that is, Greek.) But medieval European culture? This is practically copied straight out of their own self-propaganda. The Paladin, for example. (Though it's worth noting, that was propaganda targeted [I]at the knights themselves[/I], not at the peasantry. After all, most peasants couldn't read. The tales of courtly romance and knightly honor were propaganda to [I]get knights to behave themselves[/I], because terrorizing the people who make your food and work your land is a bad idea.) [/QUOTE]

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