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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8489184" data-attributes="member: 2209">Sure that one picture with the boomboxes could have been directed at the punk movement, it has two with piercings and leather vests and mohawk style hair styles. It could have built off of WH40K riffs (which I was not as into but I thought was riffing on soccer hooligans).But that is one picture in the explicitly Central-American themed section on Oenkmar, I don't remember any textual references to punk style stuff (but it has been decades and I have not read it cover to cover) for orcs in general.So that picture can be taken as depicting Orcs as punks and/or urban hip hop Blacks. It is art subject to different interpretations and as an audience you do not necessarily know the artist's intent.However the huge amount of text about Red Orc tribes and braves that is American Indian themed and the Yellow Orc Asian theming is pretty dominant and up front and pervasive.I do not find it persuasive that the Indian and Asian theming was not intentional based on the one punk picture.I think they were going for a Looney Tunes type parody cultural humor theming.</blockquote>