#we should be teaching both epics in our schools but we are here learning verb to be and USA and UK history

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@flukewarm i believe i have a bit too much to unpack about this so i will be writing here

it's actually impossible to tell this by a post that has less than 10 words but it is not about if sun wukong is better than hanuman or vice versa lol, i posted this because i was tired of seeing things about china in pop culture

important to say i have nothing against china government or its people, but i am a bit ?saturated? maybe

i have no statistics to show and everything i am about to say is from the perspective of someone that lives in the west and was by almost all molded after the west perspective but i like to be honest with myself and with the people that i like so i guess story time

once i was talking with a follower (that from what i inferred is desi) and i asked them if they could search for nilah hindi VA for me - i think you already know the answer but i was confused when they replied "there's none", in my head i just could not find bc idk i didnt knew how to write in hindi and bc my keyboard is for the latin alphabet so i couldnt do much about it myself etc

i thought about this situation about a while... why would a localization for hindi not exist? i mean india is just behind china in population no? and then, as we brazilians like to say, the penny dropped

i realized that, yes india had just as many people as china but india has a big problem with poverty and people will work towards the essentials before even thinking about buying expensive hardware to THEN access a (let's be honest) shitty moba, not worth it

despite being incredibly funny that companies are now bending their backs to china to get a piece of the market, i also get sad bc it doesnt seem like we will ever have ramayana in the same level as journey to the west

it's not worth it, it's not profitable

league of legends have dozens of skinlines with asian thematics that cater to the chinese/japanese/korean market and they get a lot of attention and get extra batches and more skins and more cosmetics etc

genshin impact has liyue, based off china and inazuma for japan alone, they are standalone regions, they have their own thing, meanwhile sumeru is an amalgamation of every south asian + arab countries you can imagine, just outright disrespectful

heck even recently they released that triple A video game about su wukong itself like cmon man

and it's even more sad bc i know wholeheartedly that the journey to the west is a good story, i have been loving every single thing i read about asia and i say with sincerity (i have been reading about mongolia recently), but bc of this never ending exploration by greedy companies i dont feel like i am enjoying a story, i feel like i am consuming a product (i know that if any chinese person read this they would say i am just jealous bc they also have just started having their spotlight moment ah well) |may i add an extra feeling to this? this is one of the reasons i love bollywood, not sarcastically, seriously, like india just said "oh you guys wont do anything about us? no problem we got ourselves covered" i like it bc it has some layer of sincerity to it of "i wanna se myself in the screen too" and i think it's precious to have a industry like this to explore such a giant and rich culture (i wish we had a cinema industry as strong as bollywood in brazil like for real i envy this a lot)|

and bc of all this, by saying "fuck journey to the west all my homies like ramayana" i dont mean one is worse or better than the other, but that i dont wanna engage with statistically higher profit margins of these garbage companies and at the same time put energy and attention towards an equally relevant myth to bring it to the mainstream light and to the public knowledge

yea that's what i mean with the 9 word long tumblr post

fuck journey to the west all my homies like ramayana