Is xenophobia a thing in the world of Pokemon?
>>59069090Carmine
>>59069090Gastrodon
it's always funny when a modern, supposedly progressive franchise makes fun of my ethnicity (a white subgroup btw) because we're the designated punching bag and nobody notices that it's hypocritical.
>>59069090Why are all Unova people like xenophobia and racist?
>>59069090There's no Xenomorph in Pokemon
>>59069090Kanto is not even a town
>>59069361Silence, Jacques
>>59069361I'd generally agree but Kanto is specifically in Japan, and they have hicks in Japan.
>>59069106She's justified in being xenophobic, though. Her home town and its culture have been bastardized into a tourist spot that relies on foreigner money because it can't sustain its own economy otherwise, and constantly worries everything that made home feel like home will eventually be completely wiped out as it becomes just another commercialized melting pot..
This shit never made sense. It's the equivalent of calling someone from Tokyo a hick.
>>59069441>She's justified in being xenophobicas most are.
This kid sounds like a jerk, no wonder he wasn't invited to the final season.
>>59069449He's from Unova, are you saying it's unrealistic for an American to go "This is America, not some irrelevant little shithole village like Japan"?
>>59069449Maybe it might have made more sense if they switched that from Kanto to Pallet Town, but even then it doesn't make a lot of sense. With the way he spoke about the region, you'd think he visited Kanto at some point or knew someone from there that made him start disliking Kanto, but it's never brought up in the anime so you just end up having someone who is unexpectedly xenophobic about a certain region than other characters in the franchise just because.>>59069474He wasn't even given a proper sendoff in his final battle with Ash. Literally bootleg Paul.>>59069521A reasonable explanation, but they failed at displaying it.
>>59069545>American kid is xenophobic and has completely retarded ideas of places he's never been to, to the point of not knowing the difference between a region and a town That sounds pretty accurate desu.
>>59069449>It's the equivalent of calling someone from Tokyo a hick.Despite being based on the irl kanto the kanto region was canonically a shit hole and thats alluded to with the amount of poison types and team rocket having enough authority to control a gym(the equivalent of the military/government in pokemon) the anime was originally going to double down on this with Ash being a poorfag hooligan raised by an alcoholic single mom but they toned it down when they realized just how much of their target audience was small children
>>59069565>the equivalent of the military/government in pokemon>headcanon
>>59069569When team plasma was trying to run a coup on unova the last line of defense were the gym leaders, not an army or police force.
The fact that he knows Kanto is an actual place and not just some fictional area in a video game makes him look smarter than the average American desu
The only region more hick than Kanto is Johto, but that region is at least still keeps its traditional aesthetic vs. Kanto being a filthy, dangerous, crime riddled 90s district.
>>59069572Because the game would've chugged, shitted and farded if it had to display a fuck ton of cop sprites onscreen simultaneously. Also, it'd carry the unwanted implication that guns exist and are used in the Pokemon world unless you added a fuckton of Stoutland, Herdier and other likely cop mons to the rendering toll in place of implied guns.
>>59069545Kanto is a region so it be like calling someone a hick because they come from the South.
>>59069584Its easier to render a hundred sprites than a single pokecenter if the DS can handle environments like castelia it can absolutely handle 30 cop sprites with a few stoutland mixed in
>>59069572>When team plasma was trying to run a coup on unova the last line of defense were the gym leadersmore like the ragtag line of defense.
>>59069608From a competent dev, yeah, but this is GameFreak we're talking about.
>>59069615>but this is GameFreak we're talking about.The games under Masuda were generally well optimized it was when Ohmori took the reigns that the 3DS started shitting itself everytime youd enter a battle.
>>59069636DP happened under Masuda, and they're considered some of the worst optimized Pokemon games from the 2D era.
>>59069090it is for japan and that's all that matters
>>59069090hAhA AsH Is fRoM ThE BoOnIeS I ThInK I'M So fUnNy nOt liKE I'M AsH'S WoRsT RiVaL AnD A RiP OfF PaUl oR AnYtHiNg
>>59069441>thoughI don’t care if her fictional xenophobia is justified. It’s still xenophobia like OP asked
>>59070804>nOt liKE I'M AsH'S WoRsT RiVaL That’s not Cameron
>>59069639That was one hiccup compared to the games from SM onwards being consistent in their terrible optimization
How many regions do you think hate Galarians for their region's long history of colonialism?
>>59070933Outside of Unova have there been any other regions based on former British colonies?
>>59069434*Cletus
>>59069572>surge and drayden being a veteran and a mayor are considered separate from them being gym leaders>police officers have been present in every mainline region except hoenn with no real connection to the gyms>lumiose city has a town hall and a mayor that is clearly separate from its gym and gym leader
>>59069361no white "ethnicities" get made fun of, retard.
>>59069361Whiteness is a social construct and over 100+ years ago different European nations had different views on which neighbouring nations were white or not. That's not really any excuse to make fun of your home country but it's been a thing for a long while now even with other whites
>>59072938>Whiteness is a social construct and over 100+ years ago different European nations had different views on which neighbouring nations were white or notThis is kike historical revisionism.
>>59072006French, Poles, Balts, Celts
>>59072958go ask your grandad what his folks did to the irish icemonkey
>>59069367it is based on america
>>59070939There will probably be more. The Copperaja line's whole thing implies that a region based on India exists. There's probably more hints towards similar things in SwSh, but I haven't played them myself so I wouldn't know. WiWa is also based on the island parts of southeast Asia, which have had some British influence, specifically the Philipines.
>>59073164This would imply Kantonians, Jotohans, Hoenians, and Sinnohnians are also racist and xenophobic
>>59072963When does Pokémon make fun of them?
>>59072938I mean, there is literally nothing more European than making fun of your neighbors.
>>59072938Blackness and Whiteness is a social construct, until HERO BLACK GENTLEMAN George Floyd gets bodied by an EVIL WHITEY PIG. Then they actually exist.
>>59073370Blackness is a enforced social construct. People back in Africa didn't see themselves as black.
>>59069361Hey wh*tey. Racism doesn’t apply to your kind!
>>59073440Yup, Africans only see their enemies as black.
>>59069361The /pol/ard says under an image about racism towards the Japanese.
>>59069449Well Pallet is probably the equiv to out there town just at edge of Tokyo, that even those in Tokyo even today might consider from countryside.
>>59073254Generally these signs are put in places where no one can help you if you don’t speak Japanese. No one cares if a whiteboy goes into the “Japanese only” signed cafe, they just can’t take your order if you can’t order in Japanese.
>>59069090>Is xenophobia a thing in the world of Pokemon?the pokemon association in hoenn entirely accepted norman johtoian admittance of fault in a salamence attack without evidence and barred him from becoming a gym leader for 5 years and forced him to find rayquaza and that latter led to his supposed death.
>>59069361I've always found the phrase "white trash" in that same light.
>>59069361Kanto is in Japan, they're not white.
>>59073251>WiWa
>>59069090Kantroons and Johtards are the jeets and pakis of the Pokemon world, universally hated by everyone from the actual first-world regions.
>>59075097Dawn is not a racist
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