I had only heard of Yasuke once up until a few years ago and then all of a sudden Yasuke = Samurai seemed to blow up out of nowhere. The people who defend this game really twist themselves into knots justifying it. One of the people who originally worked on it said it was changed and you mean to tell me you sat down to work on a game based in Japan at that time period and this is what you came up with organically?
I don't get it. I know about that one English samurai but I don't feel any sort of pride or kinship even though he was objectively more of a samurai than a thousand Yasukes. Just because we have the same skin color doesn't make him "like me". If I found out he was never real and his entire existence was a massive British psy op I wouldn't feel much of anything.
If its England the reason for the difference is that you come from a country with a history dating back hundreds of years. The USA by comparison isn't even 300 years old. There are countless buildings in England older than that, and not just historic museums or castles, but some places people still live. A lot of Americans are desperate for some kind of family history because their nation is so young relative to others many have no lasting history or idea of their cultural roots. That ends up being even worse the further forward any particular individuals family will have arrived, which blacks are of particular note.
I'm American, so yes, there's a lack of national solidarity involved there. But Yasuke predates America too. He was African, not "black". Therefore American blacks should feel nothing about him the same way I feel about some foreigner with the same skin color as me.
I had only heard of Yasuke once up until a few years ago and then all of a sudden Yasuke = Samurai seemed to blow up out of nowhere. The people who defend this game really twist themselves into knots justifying it. One of the people who originally worked on it said it was changed and you mean to tell me you sat down to work on a game based in Japan at that time period and this is what you came up with organically?
There are a lot of black weebs who desperately want yasuke to be real.
Blacks want to be everything except African.
I don't get it. I know about that one English samurai but I don't feel any sort of pride or kinship even though he was objectively more of a samurai than a thousand Yasukes. Just because we have the same skin color doesn't make him "like me". If I found out he was never real and his entire existence was a massive British psy op I wouldn't feel much of anything.
Where abouts are you from country wise?
If its England the reason for the difference is that you come from a country with a history dating back hundreds of years. The USA by comparison isn't even 300 years old. There are countless buildings in England older than that, and not just historic museums or castles, but some places people still live. A lot of Americans are desperate for some kind of family history because their nation is so young relative to others many have no lasting history or idea of their cultural roots. That ends up being even worse the further forward any particular individuals family will have arrived, which blacks are of particular note.
I'm American, so yes, there's a lack of national solidarity involved there. But Yasuke predates America too. He was African, not "black". Therefore American blacks should feel nothing about him the same way I feel about some foreigner with the same skin color as me.