Titles Tell Stories: How "Mists of Pandaria" breaks the mold

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8-09-2011 @ 10:57AM

Daedalus said...

@AudreyR:

Not even close to the same thing.

There's been antagonism between Japan and China for centuries, but with World War II, things got really ugly. (Just check the wikipedia page on "the rape of Nanking" if you don't understand why and weren't feeling sufficiently depressed today.)

I'm not trying to say anything bad about Japan; lots of countries have very nasty pasts, but we shouldn't let that reflect on their modern incarnation. However, I'm willing to guess that for a lot of Chinese people, seeing a panda in Japanese armor would be like Americans seeing a bald eagle in an Osama bin Laden t-shirt.

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