The "western tropes of colonialism, objectification, and exoticization" that you grew up with? These tropes are woke terms that didn't enter the public consciousness in any major way until a couple years ago. You did not grow up with them. Prior to 2015 you wouldn't hear these things outside a university. And as for them being western, that's just standard progressive "white man bad" virtue signaling. Go to any of the objectified and exoticized people and you'll find they objectify and exoticize anybody different from them too. It's not a western trope. It's human nature. All humans have an ingroup bias. It's fashionable now to bash white people but psychological testing has shown that othering is done by all humans. If you were truly interested in exploring this phenomenon you'd have done some legitimate research on it instead of just buying into the white supremacy nonsense. It's too bad - I was hoping for a real game about first contact, not an excuse to virtue signal your leftist politics.
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I sincerely doubt that you care at all about whether I am angry at othr people's journeys, and are in reality insulting me in a cultural form. The problem for people such as yourself is that I'm actually something of a moderate which means I get into discussions with both sides and my experience has been only your side behaving in this manner. Had I addresssed a conservative, they would not say sincerely for example unless it was actually true. Our culture is not use "sincerely" in the figurative way that has become common elsewhere. Also, conservatives respond often with specific suggestions. This is one reason why I find your sincerity to not actually be honest. I find honest suggest hobbies or suggest ways to lower stress, and then often end with good luck. Your message, on the other hand, while perfectly polite in formal language was in reality far more rude and vicious than the sentence I sent you.
In my case, it is not fake politeness to mask being vindictive. I truly do hope you break out of your passive aggressive ways and are able to more genuinely express yourself. And yes I realize expressing things probably means I totally deserve you being a jerk to me. But it will be healthier for you than concerns about cultural apppropriations, which are almost invariably signs of deeper mental distress.