It’s NPR. The average NPR journalist spends most of their waking hours looking for things to be offended at.
nah npr is about being offended at republicans.
Remember when people used to have cultures that were regulated and highly influced by the people nearby you instead of the3 mass-marketed, 1-up everyone, free-for-all culture mass media communications and more importantly The Internet has provided us with?
I do.
I remember when a Coca-Cola bottle or can actually was a symbol because it wasn’t mass-distributed everywhere like it is today, and people in the USSR would see one, and it was a rare event, something that would make them say “there was an American here at some point” and they had made a genuine connection to a small part of our culture and that could be a meaningful thing to them, since the only other ways our culture was distributed to them was via propaganda distributed through either Soviet or American channels.
I never knew the power that a symbol could have because I had grown up in a country where I was surrounded by them, so bombarded by them that they were part of the natural scenery and blended in, perfectly camouflaged against my everyday life. America was still touted as a “melting pot,” and that was promoted as one of our strengths. When I thought about people from other countries, I considered them too, against the backdrop of their symbolism, or at least how their culture was presented to me via symbols here in my country.
Cultural nuance is important because it allows us to identify with others’ differences without having to criticism them. What you’re seeing portrayed in SF2 is not racism, at least not with any deliberate efforts to be so, but rather a glimpse into the world as it was way back in the early 90’s (and perhaps more importantly the late 80’s while the game was in development), with eyes that were still innocent and untouched by modern communication’s homogenizing effects. A Street Fighter 2 made today would be vastly different in character design. Saying it’s racist is like saying that the US during the 80’s was more violent because action movies became popular. It’s a product of a different time when people thought vastly different about the world than we do today for the most part.
…Because Street Fighter 2 was designed by republicans?
A fine example of what happens when you combine NPR style “offense fishing” with general stupidity (coming from no less than a judge, in this case) http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/2008/07/dallas-county-meeting-turns-ra.html/
What are you like a thousand years old? What is USSR?
wow I haven’t heard USSR in a LONG time. It dissolved when I was in elementary, right after geography…so I only had to learn 1 country. Asia was EASY.
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I assumed they were both Japanese, but Ken was born in America first. Ryu is just a discarded baby that learned how to chuck fireballs.
"Capcom itself didn’t sell a single copy to Mexico, but there were like 200,000 copies in Mexico. So there was a whole bunch of illegal copies around the world."
Totally true, this is the reason why WW, HF and CE were very popular but not SS and ST, no one would buy an original cab.
then KoF series was even easier to pirate and simply kicked SF2 out from the #1 spot.
Yes but they are even racist against their own race, they have a japanese main character wearing a karate uniform
Damn, you kids are young. 
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