Western media trends towards the myths and legends from western culture? No shit
I mean, what else would you expect? That’s human nature. Kinda a wild thing to be complaining about
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nifty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am tired of western Cinema jerking off to same old stories, which tbh aren’t the pinnacle of literature or storytelling. There are so many cultural epics which are deserving of the big screen, but unfortunately this western culture bias keeps the general audience from being exposed to any of it.
It wouldn’t matter, but the issue is then you have utter fucking illiterates and philistines who believe that only western writers, thinkers or philosophers came up with anything good. New flash, dudes, many, many of the western writers took their influence from non-western sources.
nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
But imagine if African or pre-Columbine American mythologies were used to film movies and series.
nifty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I get what you’re saying, but I guess I am just idealistic and expect more from people, like being honest about the sources and influences of their works
NIB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How many movies have you watched about the Odyssey?
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Quite a lot, although older. Not including On Brother, Where Art Thou?
Rooty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Western cinema films western stories, internet rando upset.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean
Every culture does that, though? If anything, Americans appreciating the works of the Greeks is as widespread and diverse as a culture can possibly get.
Every couple of years Chinese make a new Sun Wukong move, TV show, or videogame. Koreans shove korean dragons into every medium they can. Japanese love them some Shinto priestess main characters and Yokai stories.
That’s how culture works. The differences and uniqueness make them worth experiencing.
murtaza64@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
fucking crazy to denigrate South Asia like that when you made the effort to respect culture for all the other regions you mentioned. I guess all the other countries you mentioned don’t have a history of racism, classism, nepotism, sexism or religion?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No they do but for most of them it’s sort of died off in the last 200 years.
In India, it doesn’t seem to be declining much…
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Looks like it’s being lifted up.
murtaza64@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I would actually argue that in many ways it’s increasing, at least in Pakistan where I have family, but these aren’t the only countries with growing fascism and regressive social politics (see lots of Europe and of course the US).
But your comment was about stories of cultural importance, not race or gender or class; I can’t help but feel offended that you would choose to shit on my culture for some reason instead of identifying relevant stories like you did for the other cultures you mentioned in your comment. I agree that those -isms should be criticized, but India definitely caught a stray from your comment.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Let’s not forget that in the same way you can trace a huge amount of things you see in Western stories to the Greek epics and Gilgamesh you can trace a huge amount of things you see in anime/manga to the Journey to the West.
mongoosedadei@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This comment serves as a reminder that the normalized hatred against India/South Asia on Reddit is alive and well on Lemmy too
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A wise man once said “There are two things in the world I can’t stand: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch.”
In both his case and mine, the cultural insensitivity was part of the joke.
nifty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That wasn’t exactly my point. There are examples of Epic tales from other cultures which people often get exposure to by default because the main focus of western cinema or storytelling is Greek or English.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_folk-epics
Note that epic tales are a distinct type of genre
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_(genre)