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Feedback to EA on new pack: I understand this is supposed to be based on NZ (based on the pūkeko) but if it is, then this is a really colonised whitewashed version. It is really sad that all of our c...
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I think the English names are fine because people outside New Zeeland can understand their meanings. If they had put the Maori names, the meanings would have been lost to everyone that doesn't speak Maori.
I think that the problem with the logic from crocobaura is that they took real world inspiration for names in other cultures and languages when they used them as inspiration for ALL the other sims 4 worlds. For example, Selvedorada, (which is another example of a place name that is in another language: selve being jungle, dorada being golden in Spanish) we have Puerto Llamante Marketplace (Puerto Llamante is kinda like Port of Call in Spanish) and Belomisia Jungle (Belamisia is like beautiful in Spanish). I could go on with all the other worlds as well. Mt Komorebi, Nordahaven, Tartosa, Sulani, Ciudad Enamorada, Innisgreen. This is the first time the real world inspiration location names have been so ignored by EA. In NZ, about 90% of place names are in te reo Maori. This is the first time EA decided to ignore real world place names and create some fake version, completely erasing my people and our language, for no good reason! It's especially silly because our place names are lovely!!!!
I see your point, however Spanish is widely spoken, so most people can at least recognize it as Spanish. When they did Life and Death EP, even though the world Ravenwood is based on Romania, none of the names were in Romanian. I am fine with that because the world is not Romania but Ravenwood. Same here, the world is based on New Zeeland, but it's not New Zeeland, it's Gibbi Point. I have no idea if Gibbi means something in Maori, and all the other names would have been the same to me and anyone else who doesn't understand the Maori language. At least in English, it's something we can all understand.
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