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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8186348" data-attributes="member: 6802378">One thing is a production with stereotypes, and other these being annoying. Speedy Gonzalez is a cartoon based in Mexican stereotypes, but Mexicans love him, and they didn't want him to be censured.A piece of a lyric to be changed because it was too violent for a kid-friendly production doesn't mean this was potentiall racist or xenophobe, only a little detail. If now "Gone with the Wind" needs a disclaimer, and Dumbo, Peter Pan or Aristocats are not enough politically correct, then in a future titles as "the tale of a maid" will need a very much bigger disclaimer.Agraba(Aladdin) was designed to be a "chop-suey", a mixture of different Muslim nations, something like in Warhammer Fantasy mixing Spain and Italy. I defend the intentional "chop-suey" of fictional countrys to avoid dangerous analogies with nations from real word.It is curious but here in Spain some Turky soap-operas are starting to have a loyal audence.We know Dragon Ball and Naruto, among others, don't show, at all, the true martial arts neither true Japanese culture (the true fact is the real Japoneses never would behave as some characters from fiction) but since the boom of manganime in the Western some people wanted to start to learn Japanese languange and about that country. We shouldn't reject all fiction inspired in not-western cultures but if these are created by natives, only to ask about what limits, and remember neighbour countries have got their own predjudices against the others, worser than old rivalities among European powers.We can bet Hasbro and WotC will worry very much if they want to produce some title inspired in Eastern cultures. The franchises Transformers and Power Rangers have got Japanese roots.* In the original 1001 nights Aladdin was Chinese. Do you remember the miniserie?  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Nights_(miniseries)" target="_blank">Arabian Nights (miniseries) - Wikipedia</a>There was also a French cartoon about the princess Shéhérazade.[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princesse_Shéhérazade[/URL]Kaladesh is a plane of Magic: the Gathering with a look of Middle East, but everybody was OK with this.* We need to remember the difference between accidentally and intentionally offensive. "Tintin in the Congo" may be accidental, but acid comedies as "South Park" or "A Family Guy" are intentional.* Now I wonder about the wildren, a PC race from 3.5 Planar Handbook as potential future lineage. What has this got to be special? Really this is maybe, with the nerafins, one of the PC races I dislike most, but it is perfect for fans of furry (antropomorphic animals) and kemonomimi ("animal ears", cute girls with some animal traits, for example the ears).</blockquote>

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