Comment on american culture
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months agoI 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.
Every couple of years Chinese make a new Sun Wukong move, TV show, or videogame.
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.
This comment serves as a reminder that the normalized hatred against India/South Asia on Reddit is alive and well on Lemmy too
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.
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
murtaza64@programming.dev 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, and I did very poorly represent my case. I really didn’t give it much effort or thought, and I apologize for that. It just appears from an outsiders perspective that the Caste System, while not officially in effect, is an integral part of India’s society and it shows in their films and TV. This is also true for the USA whose poor record of Civil Rights is also a continued focus for films and TV.