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<blockquote data-quote="Ixal" data-source="post: 8664227" data-attributes="member: 7030132"><p>When you think the crusades are complicated you should look at the reconquisda.</p><p>While the result was that the catholic dominance in Iberia and is today often seen as a religious struggle bezween Christianity and Islam the conflict actually had a ever shifting net of alliances accross religious boundaries with some countries and people switching (religious) sides multiple times like El Cid.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hard to find someone with lived-in experience for the 18th century Ottomans, let alobe pre islamic Sassanids.</p><p>Which is why I find the use of sensitivity readers for historic cultures highly suspect. Ancestry which is often used as indication which historic culture someone is allowed to speak for gives you exactly 0 insight into a culture. And living in the region this culture once occupied also gives you only a modern view which can deviate heavily from what the culture once was.</p><p></p><p>Studying history can help, but in the end it only allows you to know facts about what happened which doesn't necessarily allow someone to judge how those people really felt about something.</p><p></p><p>Also as it was pointed out above migrants are often much more strict about use of a culture than people who live in those countries. And as most RPGs are made in the US very often to save costs sensitivity readers would be African/Asian-Americans from the respective countries and not natives from there. Thus their opinion on whats sensitive can differ widely from what people of that culture think.</p><p></p><p>Sensitivity readers are imo good to catch little known fact about a culture like with which finger to start counting, ect. But imo are very poor as ultimate authority about who is allowed to say what about a (long gone) culture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ixal, post: 8664227, member: 7030132"] When you think the crusades are complicated you should look at the reconquisda. While the result was that the catholic dominance in Iberia and is today often seen as a religious struggle bezween Christianity and Islam the conflict actually had a ever shifting net of alliances accross religious boundaries with some countries and people switching (religious) sides multiple times like El Cid. Hard to find someone with lived-in experience for the 18th century Ottomans, let alobe pre islamic Sassanids. Which is why I find the use of sensitivity readers for historic cultures highly suspect. Ancestry which is often used as indication which historic culture someone is allowed to speak for gives you exactly 0 insight into a culture. And living in the region this culture once occupied also gives you only a modern view which can deviate heavily from what the culture once was. Studying history can help, but in the end it only allows you to know facts about what happened which doesn't necessarily allow someone to judge how those people really felt about something. Also as it was pointed out above migrants are often much more strict about use of a culture than people who live in those countries. And as most RPGs are made in the US very often to save costs sensitivity readers would be African/Asian-Americans from the respective countries and not natives from there. Thus their opinion on whats sensitive can differ widely from what people of that culture think. Sensitivity readers are imo good to catch little known fact about a culture like with which finger to start counting, ect. But imo are very poor as ultimate authority about who is allowed to say what about a (long gone) culture. [/QUOTE]
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