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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9038963" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>I can understand the level of offense by fault of cultural misconceptions, because we suffered one: </p><p></p><p><em>Mission Impossible II</em>. In the film, Tom Cruise lives a unique experience: <a href="https://www.donquijote.org/spanish-culture/holidays/easter/" target="_blank">Holy Week</a> in Seville, <a href="https://www.donquijote.org/spanish-culture/holidays/fallas/" target="_blank">the Fallas</a> in Valencia, and <a href="https://www.donquijote.org/spanish-culture/holidays/san-fermin/" target="_blank">San Fermines</a> in Pamplona, <strong>all together in the same scene</strong>. (In fact, not only do these festivals take place in different cities, they also happen at different times during the year.) Anthony Hopkins (Swanbeck in the film) himself is amazed and puzzled at such a spectacle: "Festivals are a pain in the ass. Honoring their saints by setting them on fire. Let's you know what they think of saints, doesn't it?” We Spaniards were even more perplexed at these tremendous cultural misconceptions. (For the record, saints are not burned in any of the three separate festivals untruthfully mixed together here.). </p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>But it is different when in a fantasy land several cultures are mixed together. For example a fictional Spain in a D&D world/wildspace with mythologic elements from Portugal, France and Italy. And in adittion of these, creatures based in the folklore from Philipines and Equatorial Guinea, lands from other continents but sharing historial links with Spain. Are you OK about this? </p><p></p><p>The future Disney movie is inspired freely in Spain, but here no Christian girl's name is Aisha, Fatima or Miriam, maybe. And what's the matter about this? </p><p></p><p>If I say it may be justified it is because I am afraid somebody could express his prejudices against groups from the real life into their fictional equivalent. How to use a soft example? A English writter could give a romantic image about the pirates, but a Spaniard would tell these did horrible things, for example to attack coast villages to catch slaves. And today there is a mutual distrust among the main powers of Far-East Asia. If you try to be polite with one, then others will be not so friendly with you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 9038963, member: 6802378"] I can understand the level of offense by fault of cultural misconceptions, because we suffered one: [I]Mission Impossible II[/I]. In the film, Tom Cruise lives a unique experience: [URL='https://www.donquijote.org/spanish-culture/holidays/easter/']Holy Week[/URL] in Seville, [URL='https://www.donquijote.org/spanish-culture/holidays/fallas/']the Fallas[/URL] in Valencia, and [URL='https://www.donquijote.org/spanish-culture/holidays/san-fermin/']San Fermines[/URL] in Pamplona, [B]all together in the same scene[/B]. (In fact, not only do these festivals take place in different cities, they also happen at different times during the year.) Anthony Hopkins (Swanbeck in the film) himself is amazed and puzzled at such a spectacle: "Festivals are a pain in the ass. Honoring their saints by setting them on fire. Let's you know what they think of saints, doesn't it?” We Spaniards were even more perplexed at these tremendous cultural misconceptions. (For the record, saints are not burned in any of the three separate festivals untruthfully mixed together here.). --- But it is different when in a fantasy land several cultures are mixed together. For example a fictional Spain in a D&D world/wildspace with mythologic elements from Portugal, France and Italy. And in adittion of these, creatures based in the folklore from Philipines and Equatorial Guinea, lands from other continents but sharing historial links with Spain. Are you OK about this? The future Disney movie is inspired freely in Spain, but here no Christian girl's name is Aisha, Fatima or Miriam, maybe. And what's the matter about this? If I say it may be justified it is because I am afraid somebody could express his prejudices against groups from the real life into their fictional equivalent. How to use a soft example? A English writter could give a romantic image about the pirates, but a Spaniard would tell these did horrible things, for example to attack coast villages to catch slaves. And today there is a mutual distrust among the main powers of Far-East Asia. If you try to be polite with one, then others will be not so friendly with you. [/QUOTE]
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