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by Maarten Goldstein, Sep 23, 2005 3:08am PDT

Reviews for Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects from GameSpot and IGN sure were underwhelming. Looks great but apparently it's not all that much fun to play. Too bad because the collection of comic book characters was pretty good, and I'm always looking for a good fighting game. Also on FileShack


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    I spent the first nine years of my life in Europe, in the very heart of western culture. Europe has a very strange attitude towards multiculturalism. In a lot of Europeans minds, left wing secularism is king, and they are very tolerant open and progressive people, to be sure, but the idea of who is a "German" who is a "Briton", that basic idea of national identity, it's very inflexible.

    You can move from Turkey to Germany, for example, and live there, raise a family there, allow your children to grow up essentially as Germans, speaking German as their first language, being educated there and being saturated in German society. But still, you would not be a "German". That doesn't mean that you'll have some kind of a hard time, just that you will be a "second generation immgrant permanent resident" etc - but not a German. Because lets face it, Germany was, for all intents and purposes, always inhabited by Germans. And who are Germans? The very same tall, viking-lookin' thor-lovin' types, who kicked Roman ass two thousand years ago. It's not so easy to justify a Turk ringing in some 50 years ago as being German "just" because he was born here.

    In the European colonies, this attitude is in flux though. It exists because of ethnic majorities, but it is more and more an idea that has its foundation on shifting sands. My younger self could not understand how I could be "Australian" now. I felt like an outsider, thanks to my extremely ridgid idea of national identity. Over the years though I was cured of that, and thank god. I can now compare the two worldviews and see something gravely wrong with the one I originally held. It gives way to being decrepid, it's just another thing that stands in the way of new ideas. Not just in the sense that excluding people from a different cultural standpoint might close us off to new ways of viewing the big issues that face us, but also the less serious things that I think are in their own way just as important: like the idea of how to have fun, or the idea of what kind of food to eat, or, in fact, how to dress.

    Walking through Sydney, seeing signs in both Chinese/Japanese and English, hearing five different languages spoken at the same time and then seeing the speakers switch to English without missing a beat, knowing and working with people who have come from all over the world, makes me feel like I can see more, do more, learn more, be more, then I could anywhere else. All in one place. Does that not make us stronger? Does that not give us the chance to be greater then anyone trapped in a state of mind that is dominated by cultural rigor mortis? Is it not an oppertunity that we should sieze?

    I came to realise how I felt when my dad was telling me how he noticed that back in my home town there were lots of little Chinese shops now. 1 dollar (or I guess 1 Euro) stores, small computer stores, asian food places, etc. And I realised how absolutely bizzare the sight of an Asian person back in my home town would be - I almost couldn't visualise it - while here in Australia it is completely natural, and I feel completely comfortable with it.

    I think that the old European colonies like the US, Australia, Canada, New Zeland and more, have a unique oppertunity, to transform and become a true new center of the world, a place where both people from the East and the West call home, and come together to form a civilization greater then any one its members left behind.

    Yes, this is in fact a counterpost to mojoalds
    Sep 23, 2005 6:46pm PDT

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