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Sep 8, 2024 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 why link's vai outfit is built from orientalism and racism
an educative thread written by an actual arab descendant who's still actively engaged in arab culture t.co/vWIojeyRnz
nintendo has long borrowed arabic culture for aesthetic reasons in tloz games. we can point out how there was an excerpt of islamic prayer in the oot fire temple, or how the original gerudo symbol was a moon and a star, or how the term Sheikah comes from arab "sheikh"