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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8507357" data-attributes="member: 7032025">And yet, there was an experience (multiple ones in fact). What gives you the right - what gives anyone the right, actually - to think that he can act as a proxy for people he has not ever met, whose culture he does not even know, just on the basis that he thinks - without the slightest evidence of it - that they might be offended by what OTHER people are doing when playing their personal games ?Moreover, since as far as I know this is still a forum that is not reserved to Americans (but if it is, please say it clearly), what gives anyone the right to impose AMERICAN "CULTURE" constraints on other people using these forums ? Or on people playing the D&D game in general ?This is actually way worse than cultural appropriation, this is cultural force-feeding. It is, simply, discrimination. And, I do believe, in violation of this site's policy.Seen from another angle, it's actually much worse, it's cultural SUPPRESSION. Some people seem to be so afraid of offending people of other cultures that they prefer to totally suppress any mention of that culture. They still want to leech a minimum for the culture (unless someone now wants to completely suppress rakshasa and genies including their names, but then please also suppress any French and European sounding names from all D&D books, as it offends me personally to see them used in such a context), but they actually deny all these cultures a representation in D&D ?Who elected anyone here "a representant of all the rest of the world's cultures" in charge of deciding which part of the culture can be leached and which part needs to be suppressed ? As far as I know, NO ONE here or anywhere has that right. Let these people speak for themselves, they certainly have not elected anyone here to be their spokesperson.And I might not have conducted a general survey, but at least I have spoken to some about exactly that topic, and they found it great to hear that their culture was known and cherished. And you want to suppress that in the name of american "culture"? This is unacceptable, intolerably arrogant and, if I might add, probably ****** too, because it's (no so strangely, actually) focussing on rakshasa and genies, but what about all creatures and cultures from Europe ? Did you ask the greek ? Did it you ask people from northern Europe ? Or did you assume that they consented because they are not so different ?My views are totally different, stop worrying about depicting cultures, picture them with respect, and you will see many more positive results than suppressing them and shaming people who actually relate to these cultures.</blockquote>

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