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Originally Posted by NTJedi
This seems similar to the issue where one individual was all bothered by the Jewish representation... was it Hinnom? I'm sure there's many dozen angles where religion, nationalities, culture, and other historic aspects could be found as annoying/inaccurate/offensive/etc .
I'm sure if a real MAJOR issue/conflict did exist we would have seen several huge topics discussing the issue... compared with one or two topics each year with very few individuals feeling there's a problem.
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Actually this is exactly opposite.
Orientalism is a theory of _how_ we represent the Orient; not what is represented.
Using Orientalism, I cannot come and troll around, claiming that representations of the Orient in this game are degrading or false; Orientalism is in no position to judge the quality or truth of a representation. In fact it would reject any kind of judgment.
Orientalism would be entirely unconcerned with the content of a representation aside from demonstrating how it is a performance of Orientalism. If you read my posts, that's all I was concerned with doing. This was not an instrumentalist choice; I was not trying to make an instrumentally political statement where I could gather support for some cause. Theorists of Orientalism would reject this too. (On the whole, these theorists are intellectually elitists, and find the worldy norms of doing everything for an instrumental reason as part of what is wrong with the world. Consider that "Orientalization" happened and was used for instrumental reasons.)
Without going into the epistemics of the acts of the person who was complaining about Hinnom, I can just say that politically most theorists of Orientalism would find the representation of the Jewish tribes in this game as terribly ironic, and the humored ones would probably crack a smile. I've always said Dominions is a game of irony; and that's true.