![]() If they want to sexualise her that badly then exposing the belly is the worst move- it erases the culture, it mixes with another culture, it sexualizes and orientalizes. By exposing the belly it's unrecognizable as Persian and becomes mixed with the Arab belly dancing outfit. Dancers have always had their stomachs covered. ![]() She has still been sexualized and orientalized. Whilst having culturally accurate horns from the Sassanian period and a burst move from the gorgeous Persian dance. Unfortunatly she isint the only problematic character. Because we as well would love to see a badass cat warrior with actual amazigh tattoos, clothes and jewelry. So Dehya's design could be oh so much more elevated and still badass. To analyze and take interest in the amazigh culture. While we actually wear alot of beautiful jewelry! And we also have beautiful tribal tattoos, and Dihya herself is such a stunning figure to take refrence from. Yet i didint recognize any cultural aspects in comparison to litteraly any character in this game. And as an amazigh i hoped to see at least a little of our beautiful culture respresented. Now what does Dehya look like huh? Yes indeed she has been revealed to be some warrior cat with an wild and savage look. And when we do, we become drawn out as barbarians or savages (for example another "name" for us is Berbers which the Romans called us). The Imazighen (us North Africans) barely get any representation as it is. (Listen i only heard her name and i was so excited to see my culture in this game i was jumping and ecstatic to see representation- wait she is a cat girl warrior tf)ĭehya's name is inspired by Dihya, the name of an Amazigh Algerian military queen (Kahena). I'm gonna start with the one hurting me the most, Dehya. We have been colorised, orientalized and sexualized once again. In no way was the representation of Sumeru as intricately thought out as with the other regions. And thats expected right, i was rightfully excited to see the beautiful culture of the middle east, north africa and SEA being equally represented like the other three.īut thats when i heard al haitham an important arab figure whose name is now being occupied by a white buff tech man with a fandom who couldnt even pronounce his name right and call him habibi ? I was super excited for sumeru, that was my downfall.Īfter seeing these 3 beautifully represented cultures i was so naïvely excited for Sumeru. In Inazuma, we have so many characters inspired by their Japanese ancestry and it looks stunning and recognizable.īut then the sumeru leaks dwindled along. Her design has her culture written all over it and it's beautiful. Ayaka's design is by far one of my favourites. That was one beautiful region, from the flora to the architecture. Next to all of the intricate details and lore plus gameplay. ![]() It's such characters that get me obsessed with games. Oh, he was the package, with a beautiful outfit reminding u of the Chinese culture as it has its own modern genshin signature twist. Childe was cute too, but then the man that got me everything or anything related to excitement and admiration came upon us. And to see such an elegant (not heavily sexualized) character like Ninguang in that cutscene. This was china from a whole nother perspective for me as a Moroccan. When I got to liyue I was glued to the game, forever, I thought. Now the first story event (reconciling stars?) made me heavily excited about all the lore that was hidden ingame. And the beautiful design of the culture mixed with the signature of genshin's design made the characters brilliant. Mondstadt was an amazing introduction, to the familiar buildings of Germany. So, like the launch era (yes I take pride in that it was the best era). I've been playing the game like maybe a month since it was released. And ofc Kaeya was one of the major reasons I started playing. I love this game to death, the open world and its lore, the dragons, the gameplay, and the land of liyue reeled me in.
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