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| alternate_history:nothing_ever_happens_in_south_america [2019/03/29 15:13] – external edit 127.0.0.1 | alternate_history:nothing_ever_happens_in_south_america [2020/12/28 21:04] (current) – petike |
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| Of course, not every timeline has to include South America (or most of the world's continents and geographical areas) by default. Some TLs have a deliberately narrower scope, so they can focus more on events in a specific region or country, while only briefly mentioning the bigger picture. That is excusable. But if a timeline generally strives to show the global picture as much as possible, the omission or trivialization of South America in world affairs can be really jarring as the years go by. Often, if very little attention is paid to South America in a timeline, its status may end up as one giant [[Citroen DS Incident]]. South America just seems to get the short end of the stick far too often... | Of course, not every timeline has to include South America (or most of the world's continents and geographical areas) by default. Some TLs have a deliberately narrower scope, so they can focus more on events in a specific region or country, while only briefly mentioning the bigger picture. That is excusable. But if a timeline generally strives to show the global picture as much as possible, the omission or trivialization of South America in world affairs can be really jarring as the years go by. Often, if very little attention is paid to South America in a timeline, its status may end up as one giant [[Citroen DS Incident]]. South America just seems to get the short end of the stick far too often... |
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| Though this problem is most pervasive in the case of this continent, it can also be applied to Africa (nearly as often, especially the little attention paid to some parts of the continent), Oceania (nearly non-existant in timelines that are not set in [[offtopic:Australia]] and [[offtopic:New Zealand]]), the Caribbean (nearly no significance in TLs) and parts of Asia (indeed, some are harder to research and write about, but even many of the easily researched ones seldom make appearances). | Though this problem is most pervasive in the case of this continent, it can also be applied to Africa (nearly as often, especially the little attention paid to some parts of the continent), Oceania (nearly non-existent in timelines that are not set in [[offtopic:Australia]] and [[offtopic:New Zealand]]), the Caribbean (nearly no significance in TLs) and parts of Asia (indeed, some are harder to research and write about, but even many of the easily researched ones seldom make appearances). |
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| Some AH.commers also dislike the lack of South American timelines and [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=238127|have even openly expressed this disappointment from time to time]]. | Some AH.commers also dislike the lack of South American timelines and [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=238127|have even openly expressed this disappointment from time to time]]. |
