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Would you accept a pull renaming the "Indians" faction? #194

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treymerkley opened this issue Feb 24, 2020 · 4 comments
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Would you accept a pull renaming the "Indians" faction? #194

treymerkley opened this issue Feb 24, 2020 · 4 comments

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@treymerkley
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@treymerkley treymerkley commented Feb 24, 2020

It's a cool game, but it's a little hard to recommend to my native friends. If I were to make a pull changing them to "Native Americans" or a specific tribe with the described characteristics, would you accept it, if it didn't break anything?

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@tomreyn tomreyn commented Feb 24, 2020

This is just a personal opinion of a less relevant contributor to the project: I'd love it - thanks for considering it, Trey. It's probably not just a coding task, though - if I remember correctly there are images which have "Indian(s)" rendered as text on them, too (those are probably scenarios).

I guess the final decision on this will have to come from @titiger.

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@treymerkley treymerkley commented Feb 26, 2020

Thanks for the feedback! If there is, we would need someone who can do art to fix it up. If we could get approval, that would be great. If we do, I'd like to get in contact with someone who knows more about the various tribes to help rework it into something that appeals to the standard player while also not making anyone feel unwelcome.

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@ile6695 ile6695 commented Apr 28, 2020

You might also be interested in CPG Greys video about this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh88fVP2FWQ
Longer name is a bit less descriptive and while some do like to use it, some do not.

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@andy5995 andy5995 commented Jun 21, 2020

This is just a personal opinion of a less relevant contributor to the project: I'd love it - thanks for considering it, Trey. It's probably not just a coding task, though - if I remember correctly there are images which have "Indian(s)" rendered as text on them, too (those are probably scenarios).

I guess the final decision on this will have to come from @titiger.

I think this is a good idea as well @tomreyn and @treymerkley. And I don't consider a rename has having anything to do with "political correctness", but just plain accuracy. If I'm not mistaken, Indians are from India. The faction in MG clearly is based on Native Americans and has nothing to do with India. "Native Americans" seems kind of a long name for a faction, and using a specific tribe name might be the most suitable.

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