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one other thing i take issue with when western (especially USA) audiences project their own identity politics onto things like genshin or anime is that western fandom always, always forgets they are not and have never been the primary audience for these mediums. https://twitter.com/FWAsteria/status/1379470670656991232
that by forcing western perspectives and interpretations on asian media, they're colonizing and appropriating these spaces where they're neither the focus nor the primary voice. genshin is a CHINESE game. anime is JAPANESE media. you CANNOT divorce them from the asian cultures
in which they were made, which influence everything from narrative to symbolism to design. someone calling xinyan a "canon black character" is a prime example of western audiences appropriating asian spaces. you can headcanon her as black, but it's not canon.
danmei, anime, and genshin were made with primarily asian — particularly east asian — audiences, so there's A Lot of cultural nuance that gets missed or not understood by non-asian audiences. and to see western audiences force their own cultural lens onto asian media
regardless is frankly offensive. not everything centers around western audiences/culture. and to be wilfully ignorant or downright dismissive of this is just baby colonialism in a woke hat.
you can't demand we respect your struggles while you wilfully contribute to ours.
you can't demand we respect your struggles while you wilfully contribute to ours.
in hindsight i should've just tacked this onto the end of the thread instead of QRTing but Oh Well https://twitter.com/redluxite/status/1380068189493555200?s=19
