emm123's review
1.0
Full of stereotypes. People live several millennia in the future from now, yet you have perfect copies of what the average American thinks about various European cultures. All the Germans have first names that were last up to date in the 1950s, yet seem to have made a sudden comeback; they use incorrect German (so help me, if I have to read "behfel ist behfel" one more time), and what else... oh yes, they're basically Nazis, except with, hard at it is to believe, even more blatant genocide and less individual humanity than the original edition.
The French don't wash enough, Italians are unorganised and volatile, Spanish are just backwards... and all of these distinct nations exist millennia in the future, with homogeneous culturally "typical" names and looks that you won't find in any sample of their population even in this year 2015.
To see the absurdity of the future cultures, just take a look at the football ("soccer") national team of any of these countries. In the German one that won the World Cup, you have a man whose father came from Ghana and his mother from Germany, a man of half-Tunesian heritage, two players who Poles routinely claim should be Polish, a German whose family immigrated from Turkey some decades ago and another whose family came from Albania. Several of these people have rather un-Germanic last names, and not all of them are white.
A few generations from now, almost everyone in Germany will probably have some ancestors who recently immigrated. What on earth happened to all these people millennia in the future to make a whole people Germanic enough to bring tears of joy to a Nazi ideologist?
I am capable of some suspension of disbelief in science fiction or fantasy, but when I have to suspend it and then accept comically absurd stereoytpes, it's just too much.
The French don't wash enough, Italians are unorganised and volatile, Spanish are just backwards... and all of these distinct nations exist millennia in the future, with homogeneous culturally "typical" names and looks that you won't find in any sample of their population even in this year 2015.
To see the absurdity of the future cultures, just take a look at the football ("soccer") national team of any of these countries. In the German one that won the World Cup, you have a man whose father came from Ghana and his mother from Germany, a man of half-Tunesian heritage, two players who Poles routinely claim should be Polish, a German whose family immigrated from Turkey some decades ago and another whose family came from Albania. Several of these people have rather un-Germanic last names, and not all of them are white.
A few generations from now, almost everyone in Germany will probably have some ancestors who recently immigrated. What on earth happened to all these people millennia in the future to make a whole people Germanic enough to bring tears of joy to a Nazi ideologist?
I am capable of some suspension of disbelief in science fiction or fantasy, but when I have to suspend it and then accept comically absurd stereoytpes, it's just too much.
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