WoW is in Azeroth, not Earth. That’s why cows, dogs, foxes, pandas all talk and we all speak a common language. Where do you find that on Earth? Let’s just let Azeroth have its own style and not have Earthly requirements, OK?
Repeat after me… This is a FANTASY game… If you want to imagine that something is Latin, feel free. It’s all about using your own imagination if you don’t get what you want. LOL
Why is op a natural born complainer?
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…the only thing remotely Indian about Draenei are the elephant mounts. And that was just because, by Blizzard’s own admission, they needed to come up with a mount large enough for male draenei. (Much like Kodos were made for Tauren) It was not part of the lore, and other Draenei use Talbuks, etc.
If anything, Draenei might be seen as a mixture of European and Native American, considering they were chased out of their home, then massacred. But they were also the ‘invaders’ at one point too.
And all this time I thought they were goats.
why is a person with spanish ancestors in the americas, considered latin american but a person with italian ancestors in the americas, is not? thats not logical. it therefore, must be a cultural title, not a literal title. i am referring to a literal title - latin american.
well the male draenei dance is from an indian sikh song
You keep using that word. I don’ theenk it mean wha’ you theenk it mean.
As for the rest of your post, the land of the REAL Latins was taken over by the Gothic tribes over 1500 years ago. Even by that time, they were starting refer to themselves as ‘Italians’.
so here’s italy. and right over yonder, like on the other side of france, is spain. spain is a latin language country, the monarchs of which were all controlled by the papacy in rome, italy. this is why as soon as the spanish invaded and got control of the americas, they immediately built catholic churches . lol
…said religion keeping Latin around as both a ‘common tongue’ between the various nationalities of their priesthood and also to maintain the mystique of their purported mystical links with the deity of that religion. not until the various reformations of the 16-17th centuries CE were the books or ceremonies or even prayers allowed to be in any other language but. Offenders were not only casr out, they were often executed.
so your example is really germaine to that church’s culture, not any particular peoples.
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i’m just saying, if you’re of latin origin, and italians are, and you were born in america, you are latin american, technically, even if culturally, only spanish origin people born in america are considered latin american. i think the secret ingredient is you can be latin and american but if you aren’t also from the indigenous native americans of certain areas of the americas, then you aren’t called a latin american.
so if i have a native american ancestor, and i do, does that mean i’m more latin than john travolta?
The never ending “where am I in WoW” topic…
While we’re at it, where’s the African American culture in WoW?
Trolls don’t count, they are Jamaican.
Gnomes might actually be the closest, as they have a joke relating to hip-hop.
Goblins might be the actual closest, as they regularly bling themselves out and generally party and don’t care what others think about ‘em.
We have too many Euro-centric races, it’s old fantasy and it’s been done to death.
Some fresh takes on cultures within a fantasy universe would be amazing.
On Bwansamdi, why is this important?
depending on what you mean by “latino” (as in all indigenous peoples and cultures of south america) the ZANDALARI trolls can be considered the latino representation, as while their voodoo influence is clearly african/haitian louisiana style witch craft, their structures and garments far more accurately reflect the mayan/incan empires as does the mass presence of gold clearly meant to be of an el-dorado like origin. it’s not a “clear” representation but it is one. It’d be hard to say that troll “ancestor” worship is specifically a day of the dead like veneration as several other cultures (chinese, african, irish etc) all have similar festivities on the solstice/winter vale or near the end of the year similarly but the general idea is that trolls are the south american influence mixed with others of a tribal/clan origin, for that matter taurens don’t represent any “single” native american or other such tribe since their headdresses, teepees, boats, etc all originate from different native american sub groups and clans and none of these things are present in one place as shown in major tauren settlements.
This just made my day 2000% brighter 
Why do people seem to think dances immediately mean the entire race is based around them?
That’s as bad as thinking trolls are based on African people because Zandalari trolls dances are based on it. Meanwhile, the regular ones are Brazilian.
well that, the solid gold temples (a clear reference to the story of el dorado), and even their style of clothing. I must point out that the OP confuses the “pyramids” for ziggurats, which is funny because a ziggurat is supported by beams on the bottom around the edge usually and the Zandalari embellishments on the temples are clearly of a deific temple style used by south american ancient structures.
i agree they arent indians. but using cultural dance, is a nod to the culture. in shadowlands, humans are getting asian and african customizations. so the devs are making more overt attempts at representing, even if azeroth is a fictional world, not of this earth *supposedly.
What supposedly? The humans on azeroth are not from earth. You can argue that they are adding different skin tones to humans to appeal to a more diverse cultural customer base, sure, but the dark toned humans in azeroth (or their ancestors) are not from Africa. There are no african azerothians.