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<blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 1095757" data-attributes="member: 2723">Can we please leave out stuff like FDR's monocle, or whatever? I doubt that's what the guy who started this thread was looking for. Yes, Lincoln wore a hat. But that doesn't mean he derived some kind of power from it. Have there ever been legends regarding the power of Lincolns hat? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It's not as if people purposefully disregarded stuff from other parts of the world. But in case you've failed to notice, the vast majority of people here ARE descendants of Europe. Generally speaking, you're familiar with the stories of your culture. How many people in India know anything about Beowulf? Or Merlin and King Arthur? Or Chu Cullain? How many Japanese people know about the same subjects? Not many from either side, because they didn't grow up with those stories in their culture. Likewise, how many people here do you really think know about King Khamemeah, or whoever? &nbsp;So if there's a lot of &quot;Eurocentricism&quot; on these boards, that's no surprise. Chances are, there's a Japanese RPG forum out there where someone's asking a similar question, about historical artifacts for a game, and people are listing almost nothing but mythological items from Japanese myths. Probably someone there, too, who's also complaining about the &quot;Japanocentricism&quot; going on in the thread. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Green Knight, post: 1095757, member: 2723"] Can we please leave out stuff like FDR's monocle, or whatever? I doubt that's what the guy who started this thread was looking for. Yes, Lincoln wore a hat. But that doesn't mean he derived some kind of power from it. Have there ever been legends regarding the power of Lincolns hat? :rolleyes: It's not as if people purposefully disregarded stuff from other parts of the world. But in case you've failed to notice, the vast majority of people here ARE descendants of Europe. Generally speaking, you're familiar with the stories of your culture. How many people in India know anything about Beowulf? Or Merlin and King Arthur? Or Chu Cullain? How many Japanese people know about the same subjects? Not many from either side, because they didn't grow up with those stories in their culture. Likewise, how many people here do you really think know about King Khamemeah, or whoever? So if there's a lot of "Eurocentricism" on these boards, that's no surprise. Chances are, there's a Japanese RPG forum out there where someone's asking a similar question, about historical artifacts for a game, and people are listing almost nothing but mythological items from Japanese myths. Probably someone there, too, who's also complaining about the "Japanocentricism" going on in the thread. ;) [/QUOTE]

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