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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 7834093" data-attributes="member: 926"><p>The Rune Knight is <em>hardly </em>being denigrating to Norse culture, and in any event the Norse are far from being a disadvantaged minority culture that is being exploited by thoughtless and insensitive outsiders by having Norse words used as magical elements in an RPG. I am sure plenty of the writers and players of this game actually <em>have </em>a significant amount of Norse/Scandinavian/Germanic ancestry (I am among them) and I <em>highly doubt</em> there is any significant number of them who would find this to be in any way insulting.</p><p></p><p>Using elements of real world cultures and their mythologies in fantasy settings is in no way being disrespectful to those cultures, unless those elements are being used to try to insult or denigrate those cultures or depict them as being inferior in some way. This kind of thinking is destructively restrictive and damaging to creativity, and if we had to restrict any references to real world cultures for fear of being "offensive" just by merely <em>making any reference at all </em>to a real culture, then we would have to <em>eliminate</em> <em>the entire Fantasy genre. </em></p><p></p><p>I am all for being considerate of cultural differences, but there is a point at which this kind of thing becomes nothing but a search for things to be offended about and inciting divisions between people where no conflict was intended.</p><p>Let us all embrace our shared heritage as <em>Homo sapiens</em>, celebrate our unity as Human Beings and all the things we share and that bind us together, such as the glorious wonders of our shared mythologies, instead of searching for yet more ways to fragment ourselves into warring tribes saying "No you can't use that, that's mine!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron L, post: 7834093, member: 926"] The Rune Knight is [I]hardly [/I]being denigrating to Norse culture, and in any event the Norse are far from being a disadvantaged minority culture that is being exploited by thoughtless and insensitive outsiders by having Norse words used as magical elements in an RPG. I am sure plenty of the writers and players of this game actually [I]have [/I]a significant amount of Norse/Scandinavian/Germanic ancestry (I am among them) and I [I]highly doubt[/I] there is any significant number of them who would find this to be in any way insulting. Using elements of real world cultures and their mythologies in fantasy settings is in no way being disrespectful to those cultures, unless those elements are being used to try to insult or denigrate those cultures or depict them as being inferior in some way. This kind of thinking is destructively restrictive and damaging to creativity, and if we had to restrict any references to real world cultures for fear of being "offensive" just by merely [I]making any reference at all [/I]to a real culture, then we would have to [I]eliminate[/I] [I]the entire Fantasy genre. [/I] I am all for being considerate of cultural differences, but there is a point at which this kind of thing becomes nothing but a search for things to be offended about and inciting divisions between people where no conflict was intended. Let us all embrace our shared heritage as [I]Homo sapiens[/I], celebrate our unity as Human Beings and all the things we share and that bind us together, such as the glorious wonders of our shared mythologies, instead of searching for yet more ways to fragment ourselves into warring tribes saying "No you can't use that, that's mine!"[I][/I] [/QUOTE]
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