Hey guys. Just wanted to let you know that there have been some audio issues in the background music cuz my computer was acting up during the editing process. Still, thank you all for the choosing to watch my video, and more of this content will be on its way
I'm Tunisian and I could never get over my love for Sumeru and the goosebumps I get whenever I see my own cultural representations in it or listen to the osts. I am still as excited about it as the moment I've heard/seen the teaser for the first time. I am so in love with this nation not just as a Tunisian, but also as a North African, Arab with Amazigh origins. thank you hoyoverse.
As amazigh and algerienne i want to say to HOYOVERS THANK YOU FOR THAT BUT WHY DIDINT PUT ARABIC FOR UNDERSTANDING THE GAME ياخي اضافوا كل ذه و ماحطوش لغه عربيه
I think sumeru will be my favorite for a long time. Walking through it as an Egyptian really made me feel at home (yeah even the forest area) there is even an NPC that has my name (Maryam) People keep mentioning how the representation is bad bc of the small number of black people but... Idk how to tell them that most of Egypt (right now at least) either has light skin or is tanned. There are black people but I don't encounter them as much as the other two. I myself have light skin that leans on the yellow side. And my brother and sister has skin similar to Cyno. Cyno (especially him), Dehya, and Candace's skin is the right shade of tan if you look at the people here, also their design is very sick (I literally thought Candace was gonna be 5 star), I didn't really feel offended when I saw the characters or felt any misrepresentation (although, in my opinion, I don't think they own anyone representation tbh, it's their fantasy world mixed with reality after all. they can talk about Dori all you want, if someone actually thinks people in middle east are scammers based on one character, then uuuh, how old are you? lol.) and I know people are up in the arms about Sumeru bc they wanted more black/dark skin characters not bc they care about culture of the Middle East, who is heavily made fun and demonized in the west. (edit: coming to add that yup, the Cleopatra documentary was a sight to be hold lol. it proved me right.) I would have loved Sumeru even if it didn't include the dessert, it really made me feel at home and idk why 😂 (I don't walk in the forest or the desert every day so 😂)
Yeah it’s really sub Saharan Africans who are darker. Be seen pictures of light skinned Amazighs and Tunisians. Hopefully we get darker ones in Natlan since it has Native American influence
I dont think people's issue is the lack of "black people", and i think it has more to do with how coincidentally all of the worst playable characters happen to be dark skinned and how coincidentally most of the playables in sumeru are white despite the npc designs reflecting the skin tone diversity of the region. Of course, this is not really a coincidence since in China most people view dark skin as ugly or scary
@@mybeaniebooz9601 Sorry for the late replay, I only saw this now, bc I was randomly scrolling. I don't know how true the 'black is ugly' view is when it comes to Genshin, they are willing to create stuff about Latin America in the future after all. I personally find it a closed-minded way of thinking that just bc it's said "that" about these people (Chinese) so all people like that (Chinese) are this too. the only game-changing characters from Sumeru are Nahida, Nilou, and Alhaitham. the others are good but aren't game-changing like them (Dori, Kaveh, Collei, etc.) but I have been playing with Cyno and he is amazing (even as a f2p) just slap good artifacts on him and he is golden (like most characters really). I personally didn't find him as bad as people made him out to be (idk about Dehya tho lol, and I tried Candance in the character test run and she isn't bad at all just very niche and isn't for everyone. my Kaeya is amazing as a support that carries me a lot and he do some amazing numbers. I don't like Xinyan really so I don't know much about her) there are many characters that are not that good and have light skin so... You keep coming back to that way of thinking that most people in these countries are on the darker side, believe me when I say that people here are tanned more than dark-skinned. meaning, a lot of people here are not even born with the tan, they gain it. You can walk in Egypt and find this guy who has his sleeves rolled up and there is a skin that is much much lighter there. My brother who has skin similar to Cyno is like this too, his wife and daughter are very light-skinned, her family is also white but the father and the brothers are tanned-skinned. my sister has olive skin and her husband has light skin (even he has a tan despite looking generally light). Not saying there aren't tanned or dark-skinned people at all, there are just more light-skinned people than you think. You are free to disagree but this is my take as an Egyptian, Arab, and North African, I didn't feel Genshin was disrespecting my people (especially by being 80% accurate about the things they added in Sumeru). they are making their fantasy world and mixing real life in it. and trust me when I tell you they will add more dark-skinned characters who are game-changing or meta, Sumeru or not. So don't feel discouraged. I saw a leak about a dark-skinned (or tanned. not sure) child character from the desert a few months ago. the amount of Sumeru characters are not that great anyway, look at Mondstad, Liyue, and Inazuma. Just wait and you will definitely have more characters like this.
there's an in game tip about mt. damavand that says that "damavand" in the language of sumeru means "the mountain from which smoke and ash arises", which is literally what the actual volcano in iran is referred to as.
I love this series and cannot wait for the Indian/South Asian one. I love the detail of the Sumeru Desert seems to have a dried up 'Nile River', because if I am getting this right, then the Rainforest have a lot of river and it might be based on the Indus river valley which is considered the cradle of Indian civilization. (Modern day, it runs all the way from India through Pakistan and then back to India before it falls in the Arabian Sea.) Also, Indus is the Roman take of the Greek Indos which is taken from the Persian Hindus which refers to the river Sindhu which just means, river. India is 'land of Indus' to the Roman and Hindustani (land of the Hindus) to Middle East. It's funny that they are just talking about a river and Indians call India Bharat or Bharatvarsha or Vedics/Hinduism (which is likely a cultural combination of the Indo Aryans, the step people and the IRV civilization, this culture is seen alot in the Sumeru rainforest and the new map, especially in Rukkhadevata). Puspa Cafe is interesting, It have a Sanskrit name uses Middle Eastern wears and serves coffee that North African are famous for. Nahida is also full of Indian Religion, Symbol and terminology references.
Sad that Libya is always forgotten about when it comes to talking about north Africa history But then again it's pretty rare to see anything about north Africa to begin with Great video tho 👍
Well pretty much anything Africa in general 'cause of what the media be saying about it. RE5 got dunked on for the West African setting, which is pathetic. Even I wanna see more of Africa in media.
Baobab trees are awesome. We also have them here in Southern Africa and Ive been to a massive baobab tree with a bar built inside it. That would be cool in genshin lol
Thanks for always supporting me. I make vids for fun and not attention. A couple hundred views from people who like my vids makes me happy. On the bright side, I am almost about to hit 1k, and maybe the algorithm will continue to recommend my channel. Still, seeing the same supportive people in my comment section makes me just as happy as getting 100k or 1million views
Why are you SOOOO UNDERATD, I really love your contents but why many people are not interested into your niche??. I hope your channel grew more so you can provide us such quality contents in the future.
Apep, the evil dragon you Later fight is also an egyptian god which was sometimes seen as a Form of Seth and is basically the ultimate evil there. Apep is also quite similar to yamata no oroshi from japan
Seth is also Associated with forbidden knowledge. Just look at a guy named michael aquino. Aquino even saw the famous Monolith of 2001 which taught mankind how to use Tools and how to Kill each other, to be a Symbol of seth
@@ExplorersCompass82 surly the sumeru also have some Indian inspiration but not all of it is india or Egypt As matter of fact there is more persian character currently in game then other countries(excluding the 2 leaked ones :))
Thanks for your work and explanation but maybe you don't notice that Tighnari is a Muslim scholar who lived in garnada in al andalus al Tighnari he was scholar in plant's and trees same as Tighnari in the game who act as forest watcher and thanks for your work I appreciate
@Lore Explorer: History in Gaming also if you remember jazari in side quest about ruin golem also same as al jazari who was a scholar inventor mechanical engineer i can't tell you everything better if you see for yourself hoyoverse did amazing job in genshin impact study every civilization to put in good way in the game I'm arabic from middle East it's nice to someone recognize our history
Really thank you for the effort that you did in this video ❤ though sumeru now is describing my origins north Africa specially the amazigh in my country Algeria through genshin ❤
The scarab is also connected to a certain word translated as Xeper or Kepher meaning "I create myself" and which is connected to spiritual growth, enlightenment and Initiation. This is the reason why Cyno needs scarabs to Level up
the glitching audio in the background is making it really hard for me to focus on the video however from what I was able to focus on it is a well researched video, so good job, keep it up
I was surprised when u said eygptian used to store organs in jars so the organs r sage bec i used to take in school that they did this because if they left it in the body the body would be rotten by time so they took them out and cleaned yhe body abs stored the important ones in jars so when they come back to life they still have them
Whats amazing is that a lot of cultures are represented in Genshin. We now know that Fontaine is based on France, I wonder what the fire nation would be based on... Weve already used Africa. Why not outback Australia? Just a thought.
Natlan will actually be Latin America, so countries like Mexico, Guatemala, and Brazil. The name Natlan is an Aztec (native Mexican) word, and their archon is the archon of war, just like how the Aztecs worshiped the god of war huizilopochtli. They said Natlan will have a festival called carnival, which is based on the Carnival in Brazil and Caribbean. Some west African influence will be in Natlan too cuz the African slaves that were brought there from Nigeria and Benin also brought their beliefs.
I wouldn't be surprised to see some reference to Australia, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up too much. Right now all we have is Collei's boomerang, if you can even count that lol. With genshin mixing a bunch of cultures in Sumeru, I expect that Natlan will be similar in that way. It would be nice to see some Indigenous Australian representation, I'd loooove to see some references to dreamtime stories. I believe Natlan is partially in the desert as well, and with all of the red sand we've seen in Sumeru it'd be a great opportunity to draw inspiration from Australia's outback. Also there may be a number of (somewhat) distinct tribes in Natlan? So maybe we'll see a tribe based on Indigenous Australian culture. But this is purely speculation on my part. We know basically nothing about Natlan at this point so who knows!!
17:29 just to point out a error. the painting of dihya is not dihya herself but rather a orientalist painting of a random amazigh woman made by a colonizers unfortunately so alot of people mistake as dihya when it's not
Definitely yes! I will explain why Mesoamerican and West African cultures are combined in Natlan. It’s mostly cuz a lot of west African slaves were brought to the americas by the Spanish. That is why many Latin American countries today like Colombia or Brazil have a mixture of African and indigenous culture
@@ExplorersCompass82 Nice. Although will you cover Fontaine? Now that we are getting close to Natlan, I think it's a good time to cover Fontaine's French culture. And I am French myself and I love seeing my country represented. Especially when it's specifically based off the Belle Epoque.
@@princekiro1596 I am currently finishing up my Fontaine video. The reason why it has been taking so long is because it is my first 1-hour video, meaning that it’s gonna cover Fontaine’s French, Italian, Spanish, and British influence. As well as its music, food, culture, and technology
3:16 Uh, no, they don't put the HEart into the jars, because the Ancient EGyptians believed that the heart is to be weighted by Anubis so they kepted it inside the mummy.
I’ve heard people in my comments that she may be Arabic as well. Just like Alhaitham who is named after an Arab Iraqi scientists. However, I need to research what specific Arabic country she is of
Forgive me for speaking out, but the picture you posted of the Atlas lion is from Algeria. It is known that the Atlas lion was native to Algeria more than Morocco. He was killed by French colonists. 🇩🇿✍️
00:30 The architecture isn't Tunisian, but North African. These buildings draw their inspiration from "Kasbah", fortifications you see all over Morocco and Algeria as well. 00:34 You find Amazigh all over North Africa, so they aren't Algerian. If we go by numbers alone, there are more in the country of Morocco, but that's besides the point.
Also, it's not really related to North African culture, but... Sumeru desert is a land ruled by white people claiming (for the "elite") to be superior to the Desert tanned/dark-sinned and who use them as mercenaries and their lands as their personal trash bag... Also, during the story quest, a revolution against the oppressor started and allowed the desert people to be more respected and to keep their own culture without being oppressed or looked down anymore... Is that just me or this is an anticolonialism story strongly influenced by European colonization of North Africa?
Yessssss that is the precise message I understood from the game so when I saw people complaining about all the brown characters being forced to be mercenaries or workers... I was like... Huh? This games story is a COMMENTARY on the oppression of indigenous/brown people in direct support of the liberation of the worker/lower class. It literally states again and again that the (WHITE) people of Sumeru are blind naive and prejudiced. My only problem with representation in Sumeru is the lack of darker skintones and ethnic features (More brown eyes, more darker hair... The fact that only 3 out of like 13 characters have skintone darker than paper white is ridiculous.
@@ExplorersCompass82 I think your video is well done but when you talked about the Amazigh at 16:18 you forget that Libya is also part of the Amazigh people
@@ExplorersCompass82 and at 15:10 You talked about the architecture of North Africa It is also well-known in Libya especially in the mountains of Western side
North Africans are a bit more tan than they are black. You can ask the North Africans in this comment section too It’s really sub-Saharan Africans that are black, which is further away from North Africa
@@ExplorersCompass82 You're right, we not black Rather tanned skin But in the far north east you have Kabyle mountains where people can be very white skinned and look like people from Scotland or Vikings lol And in the far south of the Sahara Desert people are mixed race or black But for the majority of North Africa we have Beige skin color I love my region because it is naturally diverse🇩🇿🇹🇳🇱🇾🇪🇬🤗
Hey guys. Just wanted to let you know that there have been some audio issues in the background music cuz my computer was acting up during the editing process. Still, thank you all for the choosing to watch my video, and more of this content will be on its way
I'm Tunisian and I could never get over my love for Sumeru and the goosebumps I get whenever I see my own cultural representations in it or listen to the osts. I am still as excited about it as the moment I've heard/seen the teaser for the first time. I am so in love with this nation not just as a Tunisian, but also as a North African, Arab with Amazigh origins. thank you hoyoverse.
انت امازيغي؟
ena machli9t bchay awala machoft sumeru hhh
@@shorthairsuperiority ken ritni ena mela?
As amazigh and algerienne i want to say to HOYOVERS THANK YOU FOR THAT BUT WHY DIDINT PUT ARABIC FOR UNDERSTANDING THE GAME
ياخي اضافوا كل ذه و ماحطوش لغه عربيه
I think sumeru will be my favorite for a long time. Walking through it as an Egyptian really made me feel at home (yeah even the forest area) there is even an NPC that has my name (Maryam)
People keep mentioning how the representation is bad bc of the small number of black people but... Idk how to tell them that most of Egypt (right now at least) either has light skin or is tanned. There are black people but I don't encounter them as much as the other two. I myself have light skin that leans on the yellow side. And my brother and sister has skin similar to Cyno.
Cyno (especially him), Dehya, and Candace's skin is the right shade of tan if you look at the people here, also their design is very sick (I literally thought Candace was gonna be 5 star), I didn't really feel offended when I saw the characters or felt any misrepresentation (although, in my opinion, I don't think they own anyone representation tbh, it's their fantasy world mixed with reality after all. they can talk about Dori all you want, if someone actually thinks people in middle east are scammers based on one character, then uuuh, how old are you? lol.) and I know people are up in the arms about Sumeru bc they wanted more black/dark skin characters not bc they care about culture of the Middle East, who is heavily made fun and demonized in the west. (edit: coming to add that yup, the Cleopatra documentary was a sight to be hold lol. it proved me right.)
I would have loved Sumeru even if it didn't include the dessert, it really made me feel at home and idk why 😂 (I don't walk in the forest or the desert every day so 😂)
Yeah it’s really sub Saharan Africans who are darker. Be seen pictures of light skinned Amazighs and Tunisians. Hopefully we get darker ones in Natlan since it has Native American influence
@@ExplorersCompass82 I'm very excited for nataln 😆 And I'm sure more dark-skin characters will come too ☺️
I dont think people's issue is the lack of "black people", and i think it has more to do with how coincidentally all of the worst playable characters happen to be dark skinned and how coincidentally most of the playables in sumeru are white despite the npc designs reflecting the skin tone diversity of the region. Of course, this is not really a coincidence since in China most people view dark skin as ugly or scary
@@mybeaniebooz9601 Sorry for the late replay, I only saw this now, bc I was randomly scrolling. I don't know how true the 'black is ugly' view is when it comes to Genshin, they are willing to create stuff about Latin America in the future after all. I personally find it a closed-minded way of thinking that just bc it's said "that" about these people (Chinese) so all people like that (Chinese) are this too. the only game-changing characters from Sumeru are Nahida, Nilou, and Alhaitham. the others are good but aren't game-changing like them (Dori, Kaveh, Collei, etc.) but I have been playing with Cyno and he is amazing (even as a f2p) just slap good artifacts on him and he is golden (like most characters really). I personally didn't find him as bad as people made him out to be (idk about Dehya tho lol, and I tried Candance in the character test run and she isn't bad at all just very niche and isn't for everyone. my Kaeya is amazing as a support that carries me a lot and he do some amazing numbers. I don't like Xinyan really so I don't know much about her) there are many characters that are not that good and have light skin so...
You keep coming back to that way of thinking that most people in these countries are on the darker side, believe me when I say that people here are tanned more than dark-skinned. meaning, a lot of people here are not even born with the tan, they gain it. You can walk in Egypt and find this guy who has his sleeves rolled up and there is a skin that is much much lighter there. My brother who has skin similar to Cyno is like this too, his wife and daughter are very light-skinned, her family is also white but the father and the brothers are tanned-skinned. my sister has olive skin and her husband has light skin (even he has a tan despite looking generally light). Not saying there aren't tanned or dark-skinned people at all, there are just more light-skinned people than you think.
You are free to disagree but this is my take as an Egyptian, Arab, and North African, I didn't feel Genshin was disrespecting my people (especially by being 80% accurate about the things they added in Sumeru). they are making their fantasy world and mixing real life in it. and trust me when I tell you they will add more dark-skinned characters who are game-changing or meta, Sumeru or not. So don't feel discouraged. I saw a leak about a dark-skinned (or tanned. not sure) child character from the desert a few months ago. the amount of Sumeru characters are not that great anyway, look at Mondstad, Liyue, and Inazuma. Just wait and you will definitely have more characters like this.
there's an in game tip about mt. damavand that says that "damavand" in the language of sumeru means "the mountain from which smoke and ash arises", which is literally what the actual volcano in iran is referred to as.
I love this series and cannot wait for the Indian/South Asian one. I love the detail of the Sumeru Desert seems to have a dried up 'Nile River', because if I am getting this right, then the Rainforest have a lot of river and it might be based on the Indus river valley which is considered the cradle of Indian civilization. (Modern day, it runs all the way from India through Pakistan and then back to India before it falls in the Arabian Sea.)
Also, Indus is the Roman take of the Greek Indos which is taken from the Persian Hindus which refers to the river Sindhu which just means, river. India is 'land of Indus' to the Roman and Hindustani (land of the Hindus) to Middle East. It's funny that they are just talking about a river and Indians call India Bharat or Bharatvarsha or Vedics/Hinduism (which is likely a cultural combination of the Indo Aryans, the step people and the IRV civilization, this culture is seen alot in the Sumeru rainforest and the new map, especially in Rukkhadevata).
Puspa Cafe is interesting, It have a Sanskrit name uses Middle Eastern wears and serves coffee that North African are famous for.
Nahida is also full of Indian Religion, Symbol and terminology references.
Sad that Libya is always forgotten about when it comes to talking about north Africa history But then again it's pretty rare to see anything about north Africa to begin with
Great video tho 👍
Well pretty much anything Africa in general 'cause of what the media be saying about it. RE5 got dunked on for the West African setting, which is pathetic. Even I wanna see more of Africa in media.
Baobab trees are awesome. We also have them here in Southern Africa and Ive been to a massive baobab tree with a bar built inside it. That would be cool in genshin lol
I'm late,but that sounds cool. Maybe they could add that in Natlan?
@@candicechan3880 I am honestly hoping so! It'll be a cool Easter egg.
@@mialeroux2943 I sure hope so,and if it doesn't,well...At least we dreamed big
Helped me learn more about Egypt and their legendary culture ( along with other African nations)
Thank you again for your super informative video! Your videos are severely under rated.
Thanks for always supporting me. I make vids for fun and not attention. A couple hundred views from people who like my vids makes me happy.
On the bright side, I am almost about to hit 1k, and maybe the algorithm will continue to recommend my channel. Still, seeing the same supportive people in my comment section makes me just as happy as getting 100k or 1million views
@Lore Explorer: History in Gaming aw I'm so glad 🥰❤️
Why are you SOOOO UNDERATD, I really love your contents but why many people are not interested into your niche??. I hope your channel grew more so you can provide us such quality contents in the future.
Apep, the evil dragon you Later fight is also an egyptian god which was sometimes seen as a Form of Seth and is basically the ultimate evil there. Apep is also quite similar to yamata no oroshi from japan
Seth is also Associated with forbidden knowledge. Just look at a guy named michael aquino. Aquino even saw the famous Monolith of 2001 which taught mankind how to use Tools and how to Kill each other, to be a Symbol of seth
Nice job you actually say the truth rather than just simply saying
Ye sumeru is based on Egypt and India only
You deserve 100k+ subs :)
Thank you so much! Currently doing research on India for my next video!
@@ExplorersCompass82 surly the sumeru also have some Indian inspiration but not all of it is india or Egypt
As matter of fact there is more persian character currently in game then other countries(excluding the 2 leaked ones :))
@@DoxesticI actually discuss the Persian influence in my previous video!
@@Doxestic I actually discuss here the Persian influence of Nilou and Nowruz ruclips.net/video/XFgjmo7zfM0/видео.html
Thanks for your work and explanation but maybe you don't notice that Tighnari is a Muslim scholar who lived in garnada in al andalus al Tighnari he was scholar in plant's and trees same as Tighnari in the game who act as forest watcher and thanks for your work I appreciate
That is actually really cool of him! Just like how Al Haitham studies optics and how he uses a mirror for his burst attack
@Lore Explorer: History in Gaming also if you remember jazari in side quest about ruin golem also same as al jazari who was a scholar inventor mechanical engineer i can't tell you everything better if you see for yourself hoyoverse did amazing job in genshin impact study every civilization to put in good way in the game I'm arabic from middle East it's nice to someone recognize our history
So much research but still underrated, I hope your channel blows up soon.
Please don't stop making this kind of content, it's one of a kind
@@althereal I won’t 😊 making people like you happy is something I take pride in
Really thank you for the effort that you did in this video ❤ though sumeru now is describing my origins north Africa specially the amazigh in my country Algeria through genshin ❤
Tysm for the appreciation! More videos are to come
The scarab is also connected to a certain word translated as Xeper or Kepher meaning "I create myself" and which is connected to spiritual growth, enlightenment and Initiation. This is the reason why Cyno needs scarabs to Level up
Thanks for making us notice those details. Really interesting
the glitching audio in the background is making it really hard for me to focus on the video however from what I was able to focus on it is a well researched video, so good job, keep it up
Omg i love ur videos~ u deserve more subs~ wish to see more videos from u~
And as a chinese, u talk well in our cultures. Thats awesome😊
Actually; i like how hoyovers based some thing from us as arabs that actaully iconic
When the sumeru npc has the same name as you 💀
I guess this is our mythology now. From temples to comics to genshin
amazing video as always. hope you get 1000 subs soon
Remember guys North Africa(mostly arab/tanned) not South/sub-sahara Africa(black).
Nope noah.
North Africa are MOSTELY AMAZIGH tanned/light skinned
It's HERE!! ❤️❤️
9:29 also delta used to have 7 river branches in the past but now it's only 2
I was surprised when u said eygptian used to store organs in jars so the organs r sage bec i used to take in school that they did this because if they left it in the body the body would be rotten by time so they took them out and cleaned yhe body abs stored the important ones in jars so when they come back to life they still have them
Whats amazing is that a lot of cultures are represented in Genshin. We now know that Fontaine is based on France, I wonder what the fire nation would be based on... Weve already used Africa. Why not outback Australia? Just a thought.
Natlan will actually be Latin America, so countries like Mexico, Guatemala, and Brazil.
The name Natlan is an Aztec (native Mexican) word, and their archon is the archon of war, just like how the Aztecs worshiped the god of war huizilopochtli.
They said Natlan will have a festival called carnival, which is based on the Carnival in Brazil and Caribbean. Some west African influence will be in Natlan too cuz the African slaves that were brought there from Nigeria and Benin also brought their beliefs.
I wouldn't be surprised to see some reference to Australia, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up too much. Right now all we have is Collei's boomerang, if you can even count that lol. With genshin mixing a bunch of cultures in Sumeru, I expect that Natlan will be similar in that way. It would be nice to see some Indigenous Australian representation, I'd loooove to see some references to dreamtime stories. I believe Natlan is partially in the desert as well, and with all of the red sand we've seen in Sumeru it'd be a great opportunity to draw inspiration from Australia's outback.
Also there may be a number of (somewhat) distinct tribes in Natlan? So maybe we'll see a tribe based on Indigenous Australian culture. But this is purely speculation on my part. We know basically nothing about Natlan at this point so who knows!!
17:29 just to point out a error. the painting of dihya is not dihya herself but rather a orientalist painting of a random amazigh woman made by a colonizers unfortunately so alot of people mistake as dihya when it's not
Think you'll do the same with Natlan with all the Mesoamerican and West African cultures when it comes out?
Definitely yes! I will explain why Mesoamerican and West African cultures are combined in Natlan. It’s mostly cuz a lot of west African slaves were brought to the americas by the Spanish. That is why many Latin American countries today like Colombia or Brazil have a mixture of African and indigenous culture
@@ExplorersCompass82 Nice. Although will you cover Fontaine? Now that we are getting close to Natlan, I think it's a good time to cover Fontaine's French culture. And I am French myself and I love seeing my country represented. Especially when it's specifically based off the Belle Epoque.
@@princekiro1596 I am currently finishing up my Fontaine video. The reason why it has been taking so long is because it is my first 1-hour video, meaning that it’s gonna cover Fontaine’s French, Italian, Spanish, and British influence. As well as its music, food, culture, and technology
3:16 Uh, no, they don't put the HEart into the jars, because the Ancient EGyptians believed that the heart is to be weighted by Anubis so they kepted it inside the mummy.
are you going to tackle layla's culture ? i don't know by what shes inspired but i want to draw her in traditional clothes TwT
I’ve heard people in my comments that she may be Arabic as well. Just like Alhaitham who is named after an Arab Iraqi scientists. However, I need to research what specific Arabic country she is of
I think she's Saudi that's what I've heard
Her name is of Arabic origin with several design cues possibly having her originate in Saudi Arabia
Forgive me for speaking out, but the picture you posted of the Atlas lion is from Algeria. It is known that the Atlas lion was native to Algeria more than Morocco. He was killed by French colonists. 🇩🇿✍️
your delusion is real
00:30 The architecture isn't Tunisian, but North African. These buildings draw their inspiration from "Kasbah", fortifications you see all over Morocco and Algeria as well.
00:34 You find Amazigh all over North Africa, so they aren't Algerian. If we go by numbers alone, there are more in the country of Morocco, but that's besides the point.
16:11 I actually start to mention from here the other Amazighs as well such as the Moroccan ones
1 2 3 vive l Algérie
Also, it's not really related to North African culture, but...
Sumeru desert is a land ruled by white people claiming (for the "elite") to be superior to the Desert tanned/dark-sinned and who use them as mercenaries and their lands as their personal trash bag...
Also, during the story quest, a revolution against the oppressor started and allowed the desert people to be more respected and to keep their own culture without being oppressed or looked down anymore...
Is that just me or this is an anticolonialism story strongly influenced by European colonization of North Africa?
Yessssss that is the precise message I understood from the game so when I saw people complaining about all the brown characters being forced to be mercenaries or workers... I was like... Huh? This games story is a COMMENTARY on the oppression of indigenous/brown people in direct support of the liberation of the worker/lower class. It literally states again and again that the (WHITE) people of Sumeru are blind naive and prejudiced.
My only problem with representation in Sumeru is the lack of darker skintones and ethnic features (More brown eyes, more darker hair... The fact that only 3 out of like 13 characters have skintone darker than paper white is ridiculous.
Bro literally erased the existing of Libya
I never erased it. I just didn’t find much influence from it in Sumeru
@@ExplorersCompass82 I think your video is well done but when you talked about the Amazigh at 16:18 you forget that Libya is also part of the Amazigh people
@@ExplorersCompass82 and at 18:17 The Barbary lion is also the national animal of Libya
@@ExplorersCompass82 and at 15:10 You talked about the architecture of North Africa It is also well-known in Libya especially in the mountains of Western side
@@hash4096Bro it globally the same, just some few small specifics but Our countries are basically the same 🇩🇿❤🇹🇳❤🇱🇾
( Exception perhaps for Egypt )
Everything but skin color. Drhya and Candace are too tan. Mihoyo should have just made them black
North Africans are a bit more tan than they are black. You can ask the North Africans in this comment section too
It’s really sub-Saharan Africans that are black, which is further away from North Africa
@@ExplorersCompass82 You're right, we not black Rather tanned skin But in the far north east you have Kabyle mountains where people can be very white skinned and look like people from Scotland or Vikings lol And in the far south of the Sahara Desert people are mixed race or black But for the majority of North Africa we have Beige skin color
I love my region because it is naturally diverse🇩🇿🇹🇳🇱🇾🇪🇬🤗
this makes me wanna play sumeru