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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8473078" data-attributes="member: 6801845">If you read the <a href="https://www.dicebreaker.com/topics/critical-role/opinion/critical-role-love-has-died" target="_blank">article I linked to</a>, the acknowledgment is there.&nbsp; Yet the author's main contention is &quot;As a cast made up entirely of Caucasian people, many were worried that Critical Role would attempt to wade into cultures that they had no personal connections to or representatives of.&quot;So because the previous settings were dominated by caucasians, it was okay.&nbsp; But because the new setting is not it's a problem even though the author had not watched a single episode.&nbsp; It's that kind of judgement, that only people with a certain ancestry are allowed to represent people from a part of the world inspired by real world culture that I find problematic.&nbsp; It's one thing to be concerned about culturally sensitivity, it's another to require cultural connections to me.&nbsp; I'm 3-4 generations separated from my northern European ancestors.&nbsp; All I know about their cultures is what I've read in books or seen on screen.&nbsp; That's going to be true for most people after a few generations.&nbsp; I may have had more interest in those cultures growing up, I just don't think it gives me any special privilege or connection.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8473078, member: 6801845"] If you read the [URL='https://www.dicebreaker.com/topics/critical-role/opinion/critical-role-love-has-died']article I linked to[/URL], the acknowledgment is there. Yet the author's main contention is "[I]As a cast made up entirely of Caucasian people, many were worried that Critical Role would attempt to wade into cultures that they had no personal connections to or representatives of[/I]." So because the previous settings were dominated by caucasians, it was okay. But because the new setting is not it's a problem even though the author had not watched a single episode. It's that kind of judgement, that [I]only[/I] people with a certain ancestry are [I]allowed[/I] to represent people from a part of the world inspired by real world culture that I find problematic. It's one thing to be concerned about culturally sensitivity, it's another to require cultural connections to me. I'm 3-4 generations separated from my northern European ancestors. All I know about their cultures is what I've read in books or seen on screen. That's going to be true for most people after a few generations. I may have had more interest in those cultures growing up, I just don't think it gives me any special privilege or connection. [/QUOTE]

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