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the-lark-ascending69 · 21 days ago

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Isn't "imperial core" the academic term though? The Core and the Perisphery, Centro y Perisferia, idk how anglos are taught about it or what they call it but I'm pretty sure that's the concept we're talking about.

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#plus I think the problem is less ''can't have potatoes and chocolate in ripoff middle earth without the Conquista''#but ''fantasy writers from the imperial core are so used to uncritically accepting all these elements of their world as being present by #default instead of understanding the historical reasons behind their presence''#like if you have a product that can't be naturally made in a certain fantasy region #depending on the type of worldbuilding you're doing (i.e hard worldbuilding) you want to explain how it even gets there #like say you find chocolate in skyrim. a place so cold and desolate idk how you even intend to grow those plants there w/o magic #adding chocolate as a worldbuilding element suddenly has another sey of economic implicatios you have to addres if you're already addressing #the economic political social historical linguistic and religious implications of everything else #i think the problem is less the presence of coffee or chocolate and more the reason why first world writers dont stop to think about it more #at least that's what i'm getting here #but honestly i'm more baffled by the idea of dismissing any discussions pertaining the ''imperial core'' like ?? what academic texts #are we gonna read at uni if not those? it's always the imperial core this the imperial core that #or are USians not taught about it in school

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