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Water0202020Lv64yr
2021-04-13 20:39

Reading status: 115 raws It was a decent novel, then nationalism infected it like a plague. Huaxia is the strongest. Huaxia cares for human lives unlike the baddy nation Indo-Union (Did they forget the early chaps where MC was used as a bait by the govt??). My guess is that the novel was written during China-India border conflict. Because in this novel, Indo-Union (Union of South asian and middle east nations) are portrayed as evil and shameless. Chapters after chapters have sentences that say how Huaxia ancestors suppressed indo-union, they describe indo-union as morally reprehensible and weak compared to Huaxia. Based on how we hear about other federations such as euro-union, my guess is that their turn is coming as well. This could be awe-inspiring for Chinese, but for international community, it is simply filled with racism and shit. A solution could be to change the name of nations in translations. Well, if it gets picked that is.

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Water0202020
Water0202020Lv6

My issue is not necessarily with the fact that certain nations are destroyed or evil in this novel but with how they are evil for the sake of being evil. There are no complex characters in the nations that oppose Huaxia, no grey zones, no foreign good guys. A good guy for one nation could be a villain for others. That is not the case here. Nations of nation X are evil. period. Adults, children, females, it does not matter. All are stereotyped as shameless and 1d evil

AnaamDaoist
AnaamDaoistLv14

It is typical. Most novels set in modern/futuristic world, showing interaction with other countries are like that. Only change being that it targets India as opposed to US/EU/Japan - the typical villains in Chinese novels.

Billy_Jones_2022
Billy_Jones_2022Lv2

Not really. I do agree that most novels set in this type of world always have a lot of racism, but the racism in those novels is of a different style. It is more so a "China is #1, everyone else is worse"-style of racism where other countries are shown as worse and do bad things, but there is usually at least somewhat of a reason for them to do it (they have something to gain). In this one, the author specifically targets only India (at least as of chapter 300, which is how far I managed to force myself before stopping), and he goes out of his way to show how India has no valuable reason for what they are doing and that they are evil just for the sake of being evil

AnaamDaoist:It is typical. Most novels set in modern/futuristic world, showing interaction with other countries are like that. Only change being that it targets India as opposed to US/EU/Japan - the typical villains in Chinese novels.
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