Snakes?

[Hindu]

I can understand Blizzard a western company showing Snakes/Nagas (Hindu word for snakes) as Hindus (as they have Hindu names) but I thought this game is made by people from east and will be more culturally sensitive, not so?

[novamare]

[Saraide]

"made by people from east" Ah yes, the entire continent + islands of asia can easily be grouped up into one single group of people. Totally.

[MilkieTea]

https://www.hinduwebsite.com/buzz/sy...n-hinduism.asp

[Hindu]

https://www.hinduwebsite.com/buzz/sy...n-hinduism.asp

They rever everything in nature, snakes, monkeys, elephants etc etc, doesn’t mean others will represent them as monkeys in a video game.

[Thurmnmurmn]

For the most part, it seems like the cultural sensitivity thing is only in NA. Most of the rest of the world doesn't really care.

[Hindu]

For the most part, it seems like the cultural sensitivity thing is only in NA. Most of the rest of the world doesn't really care.

So why did Charlie Hebdo attack happened if it's just NA thing? and why FF14 named a character Bahamut but kept the current day Pagan Gods in current day real world names without using fictional names?

[TheMightyMollusk]

So do we also complain about FF making Shiva female when the mythological source of the name is male?

Or Hraesvelgr and Ratatoskr being dragons when in Norse mythology they're an eagle and a squirrel? (And don't get me started on Odin.)

[Saraide]

So do we also complain about FF making Shiva female when the mythological source of the name is male?

Or Hraesvelgr and Ratatoskr being dragons when in Norse mythology they're an eagle and a squirrel? (And don't get me started on Odin.)

First I wanna understand why OP thinks that because the devs are "from east" that gives them some sort of immediate cultural sensitivity to hinduism when hinduism is mainly concentrated around the indian sphere of influence but the devs are from japan.

[Hindu]

First I wanna understand why OP thinks that because the devs are "from east" that gives them some sort of immediate cultural sensitivity to hinduism when hinduism is mainly concentrated around the indian sphere of influence but the devs are from japan.

nope, hinduism was active in japan, google up. they still have temple from pre buddhist times. each primal has it’s japanese name but used sanskrit names in game.