5th August 2004, 11:29 AM
Quote:Wouldn't the samurai then become a Ronin? My knowledge of such things is sketchy at best.
Some would become ronin, some would commit suicide. I suppose it depended on how well they could live with that dishonor.
Quote:Yeah, they look essentially identical racially... but the Japanese sure don't really want to admit that.
That's not true at all, and is actually one of the more racist remarks in this thread, as innocent as it may be. Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Thai, Vietnamese, etc., do not all look identical to each other, generally-speaking. On average you could usually tell apart a group of Chinese people from Japanese, vice versa and the same with all of the other Asian races, the very same way you could (again, on average) tell the difference between a group of French people and a group of Italian people, or Swedes from Russians, Croatians from British, etc. These aren't as great differences as people from say, Africa and Findland, but there are very noticable differences if you've seen enough people from each nationality. Hell, Austria was just right above Yugoslavia but when my mom was a little girl (she's half-Austrian), she would sometimes get teased for looking too Austrian.
But what DJ said about Shenmue II is mostly true, a lot of the Chinese people in that game looked weird.