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That one foot encapsulates the Hindu immigrant experience so effectively that it brought a flood of unpleasant memories rushing back. In essence, the British colonials have returned, with just as much loving concern as before. And having worked in the industry, and been in the process of cover art approval, I know exactly how many stamps it takes to get from concept to reveal. It means that to a billion people, you are saying that they are less than dirt to you, and their feelings and attitudes are irrelevant in the face of your commercial gain. You can write it off as ‘oh, it’s just in game, it doesn’t mean anything, and it’s not offensive’ but that’s just wrong. But him being a terrible person in game doesn’t mean that your art team, marketing team, and chains of approval also have to be terrible. What this image says is that South Asians, Hindus and Buddhists alike, aren’t as important as getting a ‘cool’ image to show off how bad a dude is. I’m just a guy in the real world, who sees on the cover of a game that someone thinks so very little of him and his people that they’d choose this as their advertisement to the world.Ĭause that’s what this is about- respect. I’m not a character in this game, and I’m not the proprietor of the temple being looted, nor the buyer of said statue. In-world, the image is entirely irrelevant, and gets across Ubisoft’s point, that this is a Bad Guy.īut I don’t live in-world. That central figure may well be looking at the statue as a piece of loot to sell to a museum or some black market collector, and nothing more.
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Freedom of expression means that nothing is universally sacred, and everyone is free to do what they like in art. Mind you, I’m not a fundamentalist, nor am I a missionary expecting everyone to follow my faith, or even respect it. And just to see the lord so casually, flippantly disrespected…it hurt. (and yes, in Buddhism proper, he is not a deity, but in Hinduism he is).
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I’m a religious guy on the weekends I even function as a lay priest for Hindus, doing various and sundry rituals, and my home is full of statues of the Buddha from around the world.
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I was not expecting the visceral reaction that overcame me. kicking a book, then, is the same as kicking the goddess.Īnd here he was, our picture's focus, casually resting his foot on Buddha’s face, as if the god himself were only good enough to be a footrest. Touching books with your feet elicits the same response, because books represent the Goddess Saraswati, the embodiment of knowledge.
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We’re talking offensive to the point that even casually brushing someone with your feet calls for an immediate apology, head bowed, hand on heart, everything. It shows utter and complete contempt for the target, and an explicit lowering of their status. You have to understand that to a Hindu or Buddhist, touching something with your feet is just about as offensive an action as can be taken. What took my breath away, simply by the audacity of it, was the fact that the central figure, the white man, was sitting on the lap of a desecrated statue of the Buddha, casually resting his foot on the Buddha’s head, a detail that went entirely unremarked upon in the ensuing internet firestorm. An entire set of nations and kingdoms exploited for the wealth of the second and third sons of some island nation far away, given only pain and hardship in return.īut when I saw this cover, all of the above was far from my mind. People, by virtue of their birth, tasked with forcing their fellow men to serve the white man as indentured overseers. People who were forced to harvest cotton for the brits, but only wear clothing made in manchester out of that cotton. My own personal history is full of proud men and women who knelt at the feet of the stooges of Victoria, hoping that this year the tax burden might allow their villages to keep some grain. Just look up the Sepoy Mutinies, or the British theft of the royal jewels, or what they did to Somnath Temple. After 200 years of being servants of the British Crown, South Asians viewing this cover can’t help but recall a litany of horrors brought on by years of colonial abuse. The image of an ostensibly blond haired white man with his hand on the head of a kneeling Nepali or Indian man with a grenade in his hands conjured up accusations of racism, colonialism, and general tone-deafness. Last week Ubisoft unveiled the cover art of the latest game in their Far Cry franchise, and the outcry was immediate and widespread.