The society there believes that the culture is inappropriate. However, we see in the story that the people of the palace don't believe so and even embrace her culture, and MC even believes her culture is beautiful as well. They all express the society around them is ignorant, and even the maid that slapped her seems to be coming to a similar realization when she sees the MC wearing european clothes. If anything the discrimination is accurate to real world present issues today and I like that about the book. It's not a fairytale land where everyone's accepted just like ours. I get being upset about the discrimination, I'm upset about real world discrimination too, but I think stuff like this in books adds more of a realistic sense/touch to them.
This manhwa isnt nuanced representation and that why it feels flat to those who r middle Eastern/south asian (draws inspiration from both). The discrimination can be real but the way the culture is presented still feels like a caricature or something the author doesn't fully understand.
I am petty enough to literally reread this thing to give a better response so wait a lil
Nah I lied, im not gonna waste my time reading this shit. A romance between a coloniser and a slave? What the fuck. That isnt cutesy, the mc mentioned there are many others who r literally enslaved by that emperor and they're being all cute and blushy? I hate this trope. Am I meant to feel like its not too bad bc the emperor dont whip the slaves and bc they work in the fields? They were taken from their homes and had all their things taken away and literally dont even have ownership of themselves, yet the scene where the emperor burns the mc's slave contract has her GRATEFUL????????.?????
Hello, thats the man that insists owns u?
The commenter's all like 'but they show that the culture is beautiful, the discrimination is realistic
You’re right, shout it louder!!! Why the hell are we supposed to sympathise with a tyrant that views people as disposable?? Oh yeah should we feel for him when he longs for his beautiful exotic slave (that he views as his possession) and thinks that it wouldn’t be too bad to just kill everyone around her to keep her? If the author takes this stances they should do a minimum of research and handle the subject better than just using it as a plot device. Coercion, slavery, colonialism, they keep being used to make the main characters have a forced proximity. Use something else because this is disgusting. This cannot be called a romance when one has ownership over the other. Also the fact that there is a clear reference to real cultures is so tone deaf… we also completely lost the plot with the first witch, when that could have been something interesting. There were so many different ways to go about this than… this lol
Thank you!! I hate how slavery is actually such a common trope in romantic fantasy manhwas, most authors ignore how terrible it is and put such an emphasis on how great royalty is (why r ppl glazing colonialism and rich nobility???)
Ah let's take any interesting real world culture, label it as 'barbaric' (despite have knowledgeno other country knows) in my fictional world where all the ppl become enslaved and its clothes are mocked and belittled. In fact, let's make the cultural clothes the fmc wears be a caricature of the cultural clothing of this real world culture and have it mocked so that 'anyone who wears it are implied to be whores'
Let's ALSO not give the fmc any of the defining featured from this culture apart from dark hair, everything else will just be according to the euro centric western beauty standard with bright white skin.
Also all the relationships will be messy be fuck u. Great.