I’ve never looked at Pandaren as a joke, probably the best way I’ve ever found to describe them is Captain Algren’s journal entries in the Last Samurai (even though that movie takes place in Japan, and Pandaria is based on China, close enough)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdLBpcguoDM
" **I find myself growing to love this village and those in it. I am learning much about the Samurai on my walks with Bob, which is the name I have given to this silent samurai that accompanies me to guard me and protect me,
I suppose. I see how hard these people work, striving for complete perfection in everything they do. And yet, they all seem to have some form of peace, something I strive to have but never get. How can I achieve such a goal as regaining peace and honor?**"
Pandaria is a rich land, with rich stories and beautiful themes, which is why it is still one of my favorite expansions and stories.
Myst’s own master in the way of the crane is called Hao-Ji, a Master of the Ox, with the strength of ten of them, and the patience of Yu’lon the Jade Serpent (proven in that he did not strangle Teilaiya after all the lip she gave him during her training. though he did lay her on her back plenty of times because her “street fighting” projected so far into the future Hao-Ji could see it from the relative timeline of Warcraft 3)
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winces
I know you didn’t mean it in any context, and I never want to be that guy but…yikes.
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I think Myst is more getting at the fact that the Pandaren include both chinese and japanese themes. The Shado-Pan for instance always struck me more as Japanese-inspired ninjas.
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Like I said, I don’t want to be that guy. It’s just as a student of history that’s a…bit of a “charged” statement.
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void elves are geeks
i find it cool that a lot of people consider the first ‘ninja’ jing ke, a chinese man who attempted to assassinate the qin emperor i believe
in before you geeks ACKSHULLY me with evidence and facts
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I’ll be that guy.
How about people just don’t say or imply Japan and China are the same and it doesn’t matter enough to differentiate the two who have vastly different cultures and histories? “Close enough,” has been heard time and time again by people of color when people mean something or someone else entirely. It’s not close enough, it’s entirely different. It’s incredibly different and reducing two cultures to “close enough” is extremely gross, imperialist and dare I say… completely wrong?
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If anyone is interested:
https ://wow.gamepedia. com/Kinndy_Sparkshine
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Sure, I agree. I just don’t get the impression it was meant maliciously in this case. But then I have the tendency to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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It’s grown somewhat less prominent, thankfully, but people playing Alliance who rabidly apologize and stan for the Horde.
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Probably the same people who play Horde and act like everyone and their mother should repent for things their characters did not do.
I never read it as malicious in the first place. It’s just one of those things that just automatically make me wince. Like watching Apocalypto which seems to view Mayan and Aztec civilizations as “close enough” (and the less said about the arrival of the Spainards and the outbreak of Smallpoxs PRIOR, the better).
That movie always made me… squint.
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The History Buffs review of Apocalypto I imagine sums up the feelings of most who have an understanding of history.
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I’ve never seen the movie but I did see a clip of the part when the guy threw bees at the other guys and I was like, heck yah release the bees. (My old RP gimmick was a bee infested skeleton)
Anyway I need some background noise while I work threw this project but I never heard of this channel so gonna check it out 
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History Buffs is amazing. He doesn’t put out a lot of content per year, but everything he does put out is liquid gold.
That was a hell of a watch. I’d seen Apocalypto before and I’d taken it with a heavy grain of salt knowing who was making it but I never realized the historical inaccuracies were that absurdly severe.
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And the worst part about it was there’s enough that is historically accurate and authentic it makes the inaccuracies within the film that much worse. Because it makes them DELIBERATE.
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Time Traveling Conquistadors!
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