"rich culture and storied history". Okay.
Honestly I wanna see a woodblock painting of a modern city skyline. Heck, of modern Tokyo. It'd be very interesting.I get it, not everything in Hatsunia should be related to Miku, but that's not even a fair comparison.
No one has made a faux-retro painting of Kanye West in the American Revolution or Civil War, but a Japanese artist created an authentic Edo-style woodblock print of Hatsune Miku.
But nope, Miku is never associated with traditional Japanese cultural heritage. Not at all. /s
Anti-weebs like to say that "weebs only care about anime and ignore that Japan is one of the most xenophobic and overworked societies on Earth."
I will be honest and mention I looked at it only for the maps, but if I go around making a country led by a fictional character does not mean said country's culture is reduced to only the genre that character is from.
Okay, since there has been a report on this issue I need someone to explain to me WHAT THE HELL is going on.
I never believed that "Japanese culture is only about Hatsune Miku and anime." Hatsunia was just a fictional parallel-universe country (like everything else on NationStates) that I made for fun at first, but I added serious elements to it later and toned down the Miku references.
Someone put a frankly high level of effort into a map, that is significantly influenced by something that is tangently related to Anime and the associated Culture within.
Snowflakes making a public showing rather than a respectful plea to the author in a civil manner behind closed doors and the ongoing (increasing?) over-use of the Report button.
I fully agree. Bullies love making use of accusation of racism because 1) it's more likely to automatically make people dogpile on or view negatively the accused and 2) it usually puts the accused on their back foot by having to defend themselves against ridiculous accusations rather than being able to address the accuser's usually incorrect argument.
Sorry, I have to respond to this. I have no wish to get in on this argument but I want to clarify something. I don't recall XFE making any criticism of any genres here. You don't have to agree with XFE's argument but there is no reason to believe his criticism is done for any ulterior motive.
Ya know, I didn't intentionally insinuate that it was you who reported, but I can see how it could be assumed that was my intent. I actually wasn't paying attention to the names of the commentors here, sorry. Regardless, however, what it reads like to me is someone who put a lot of effort into something they themselves find fascinating/great/whatever, and instead of saying "Hey great job, but could we maybe be a little more culturally respectful here?" it sounds more like "Uh, dude, wtf are you doing? How very dare you!"
Yes, that's San Marino. The idea was that the OTL San Marinese republican system catches on in the post-Roman chaos period and a couple centuries later you have this huge state.
It was just a misunderstanding that jumped to conclusions. Hatsunia is a separate but similar country that exists in a parallel universe and was not meant to represent the idea that "all of Japanese culture can be boiled down to kawaii anime."
Okay. Thanks to you and the other members who helped me out on this!
My, my. How did the Armenians get that deep into Arabia quickly enough to keep Muhammad’s from getting into power?
An understandable claim, and I think were all wanting to move on from this. To be clear however, we are both arguing from the crowd, while the actors themselves have more or less exited stage right as it were.
