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bixels · 1 year ago

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Overwatch is also so fucking weird about Chinese culture too cuz they wanna appeal to us so bad but they only have ONE Chinese character. So yeah, for Lunar New Year why not dress the British character in yellow-face and traditional Chinese clothes and have her represent one of our most famous deities? What do you mean that's in bad taste because the British invaded and colonized us and started wars and got us addicted to opium cuz they were angry about port tariffs? Here, we dressed the white Swiss lady up as a cool Chinese Phoenix too, is that better?

its crazy that overwatch is just that way with the japanese. i think a sasunaru shipper in 2010 would write more respectful depictions

#reblog #like i'm all for cultural exchange and i do enjoy the costume design but at what point does it become weird costume-dress up appropriation?#when you ignore histories of colonialism to spice up your white characters and masquerade them under different races and cultures #why do the white characters get to dress up as our important deities and icons: nezha; a zhuque; wujing; xuanwu; GUAN YU; ZHANG FEI #but the one chinese character gets three generic chinese outfits. one as a chinese lion dancer as consolation.#like we're in agreement it wouldnt be cool if tracer dressed up as a hindu god right?#idk overwatch's whole deal is so wack because the entire worldbuilding is built around a post racial fantasy where now the robots are the #oppressed minority. so discussions about real life histories of oppressors/oppressed get thrown out the window in-universe cuz heyy racism #doesn't exist anymore. see the un finally works it's cool now it doesn't MEAN anything that white characters are appropriating cultures for #legendary lootbox skins you can buy for $10 a pop

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