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erikhLo Pellegrino said
Derv you have to admit that tons of Western fantasy does associate darkness with evil, whether it be with clothing or skin. Yeah a lot of that's just old-school thinking, but let's not pretend that some of the best western lore did include, by today's standards, fear, resentment, etc of dark people -- Arabs or otherwise. If we're really honest the middle ages was a time of power for Asia and the Middle East with Europe largely a battleground between empires and apparently barbaric peoples. With so much of our fantasy growing from this time, we might also recognize that Islam came into its own then too, and was considered a threat to Christianity as a whole (Dante speaks to this pretty clearly). Not trying to derail the convo, but hey, I'm American, raised in a white household myself and it's pretty clear that our stories don't exactly prep us to meet Arabs or any dark person with trust, love, and compassion. Dinh I think it's a mix of engrained fear and a lack of knowledge. America isn't exactly a place that thrives on cultural diversity, let alone teaching other cultural myths/lore. I'd be down for this too, granted, I'm not the biggest fan of such an event-by-event alternate history. If you're looking to create a wave of these types of RPs I'm totally down though.
Yeah...freakin' mono-cultural place it is.
