Asian Adventures GP

"Sindocat;c-17955604" wrote:
Okay. So - do you want Japanese martial arts? Chinese? Korean?

To say nothing of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, etc.

Because honestly, just saying "Oriental" and diminishing it to karate and Chinese food is borderline racist.

T'ai Chi is, in origin, a Chinese, Buddhist/Taoist discipline. Karate is from Ryukyu, a Pacific island culture under Imperial Chinese rule at the time the art was developed, influenced by White Crane Kung Fu.

Zen gardens are, specifically, Japanese.

Lunar New Year is celebrated - with regional variations - across several nations and cultures.

Just among China, Japan, and Korea, you have very strongly held cultural differences, sympathies, and antipathies, not to mention an awful lot of people who play video games.

Reducing all that to "Asian" or, heaven help us "Oriental" martial arts, celebrations and menu items is problematic.

This kind of content may just be exotic flavor to you, but it's either handled with extreme sensitivity, or will be tokenistic, culturally appropriative and offensive to some or all of the above groups.

I don't think EA has ever made a politically correct game.

You can find examples in The Sims 2 Bon Voyage and The Sims 3 World Adventures. Takemizu Village is some kind of East-Asian-inspired subneighborhood, and China is inspired by rural China. Though, both the Sims 2 and the Sims 3 are loosely inspired by East Asia, or at least, what white people think of East Asia.