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    Eloah's Avatar
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    Toki Tsuchimi
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    Quote Originally Posted by lolnotacat View Post
    And for the record, I personally couldn't care where someone is from. Whether or not they can make a convincing voice for the role is all that should matter.
    For the record, I am not saying accents are genetic, as an accent is gained through social osmosis, mostly. Second I agree that it shouldn't matter where a person is from, I was just pointing out how it seems the devs tried to cast VA's with indigenous heritages, at least in English. I doubt there would be many in the other languages. Third, I also was just trying to inform the OP that the VAs used are experienced. Lastly, I too understand blending in with every white person in the country. My friend like to joke with me that Puerto Ricans aren't real. We are some mythical creatures apparently.

    Quote Originally Posted by Toutatis View Post
    You seem to view latin America as a single culture/language territory which is not. Not in culture and not in languages. Besides, save one actor born in Chile (who is not «of an ethnicity indigenous to the Americas» btw) but who lives in the US, all were born in the US, not all are fully fluent in Spanish and genetics are pretty irrelevant. This «blood is what matters» thing seems to be a very white American way of doing things. Also, the Spanish are not indigenous to the region and all the game references are to other cultures.
    How and when did I give the indication that I viewed Latin America as a single culture. It is a region, nothing more. And usually refers to everything below the USA. So where was I wrong in stating the VAs I mentioned have Latin American heritage? And last I checked Chile was in South America. Also, I never once mentioned Spanish. Spanish really has nothing to do with Latin America. Just like French has nothing to do with Canada, but no one jumped there. Than again, we have yet to reach fantasy Canada, as we barely scratched the north.

    I was merely pointing out to the OP, that the VAs used were experienced, and it appears that the Devs tried to use VAs with indigenous heritage. That's all.

    The cultural aspects of this game as not expressed through language. If they were no one playing would understand anything. Everything is in the language of the user/client, with the culture expressed in alternate ways, so that the player can understand it.

    I agree that it shouldn't matter where you come from, as long as you can do the job. But I never once implied it's what drove everything.
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    Last edited by Eloah; 07-24-2024 at 10:45 PM.
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