.: Racial Issues In World Of Warcraft
By:Mark MacKay
Category:Home / Health / Meditation
World of Warcraft is based on Azeroth, a setting in a fantasy universe with some distinct similarities to our world. Some of the coincidences are kitschy, funny even. But at the heart of these japes lies something a bit darker. Blizzard sets up a world where it is easy to hate the players on the other side of the game. From that hate can spring the hate of people and races existing in our World. Blizzard was not always kind to the people they represent with the races in their game.
There are two sides a player must choose when beginning to play World of Warcraft. The Horde is made up of Orc, Trolls, Tauren and the Undead. The Alliance consists of Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes and Night Elves. From the very beginning, players are set opposed to each other. The players of the alliance share a common language, as do the horde. Interaction between the two factions is limited to ‘emotes’ some visual, some purely textual motions or gestures the players can make such as cowering, waving, and spitting on the other gamers. Often times in such encounters, there is no time for even rudimentary communication, as players are encouraged and rewarded for slaying members of the opposing faction on sight.
Most people can see the game for what it is, entertainment. Yet some of the players are absorbed by the game and lose perspective on reality. After repeatedly being killed by members of the opposing faction, the rage can build to a point where a player may begin threatening another with real physical attacks. Blizzard set policies in World of Warcraft to punish those who threaten others, but the hatred for the opposing faction is never sated, always mounting.
World of Warcraft’s races have a great deal of similarities to those of our world, stereo types included. The Dwarves, who speak with a Scottish/Irish accent, have a lot of beginning quests concerning obtaining, delivering and making liquor, implying that the fine folks from the Emerald Isles are drunkards. The Trolls speak with a Jamaican accent, and the dance the males perform is Capoeira, a martial art devised by slaves in the Caribbean islands and South America. Blizzard portrays the trolls aa island folk, like those of Jamaica, and they actively practice various forms of voodoo, witchdoctors being the most important officials in their society. The peaceful Tauren, with their totemic and harmonic lifestyle are representative of Native Americans in their naming practices and garb. Aside from potentially insulting members of these nationalities, Blizzard sets them against other players, furthering hatred for the people of the real world by spurring hate for the digital representations of them in their game.
Walking the line between what is allowable in depiction of a group of people and what is offensive; World of Warcraft inspires its players to hate one another. From that hate, the more impressionable, or inclined players would not have a far leap to transfer their hate from the player to the race they play, then to the real life ethnic group from which they are modeled.
Article keywords: World of Warcraft, Video Games, Online Role Playing Game, MMORPG, WOW, Racism
Article Source: http://www.articles32.com
Mark MacKay is a researcher, avid gamer and creator of WOW Gold Price List. A site showing players the best place to buy WOW gold.
.: New Meditation Articles
1). Meditation: The Pause That Refreshes
Meditation is a powerful technique that relaxes mind and body. Regular meditation has enormous benefits for the person both physically and psychologically.
2). Learn About Yoga Accessories
Yoga Accessories have started to enhance the yoga expedition only since the past two decades even though the origins of Yoga are very ancient. Learn more about Yoga Accessories here.
3). Learn Some Techniques of Lucid Dreaming
Some of the more common and effective techniques for lucid dreaming.
4). Sleep Well, Sweet Dreams
Learn valuable techniques to improve the quality of your sleep. Simple tips and tricks to sleep better and longer.
5). Meditation And Apocalypse Now The Horror Of The Brando Kurtz Split Ego And The Trauma That Splits It
Meditation and Apocalypse Now - the horror of the Brando Kurtz split ego and the trauma that splits it creating DID (Disociative Identity Disorder)and MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder).
6). An Old Sufi Story of Meditation Caste System: Spiritual King, General, Businessmen and Helpers
An Old Sufi Story of Meditation and the Caste System: Spiritual King, General, Businessmen and Helpers teach of Enlightenment; the Integrating techniques of Love, Meditation, Energy Enhancement, the Kundalini Kriyas, the Alchemical Meditations of Hermes Trismegistus, trauma formed splitness which is the cause of Universal DID and MPD.
7). Treating Erectile Dysfunction With Levitra
Levitra (generic name, vardenafil) is a prescription drug that is used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED).
.: Top Meditation Articles
1). Racial Issues In World Of Warcraft
A look at how it is not much of a leap from the virtual world to the real world.
2). The Shaolin Workout - Harmony
The following is an excerpt from the book The Shaolin Workout
by Sifu Shi Yan Ming
Published by Rodale; May 2006;$29.95US/$39.95CAN; 1-59486-400-4
Copyright © 2006 Sifu Shi Yan Ming
My heart is in harmony with my mind. My mind is in harmony with my chi. My chi is in harmony with my power.
There are intrinsic harmonies between certain parts of the body.
3). Sahasrar Chakra and Brahmarandhra-Centers of Divine Powers
The human body (Microcosm) is said to be a small sample of the cosmos (Macrocosm). The entire body of a big tree is hidden in a tiny seed. In a small sperm lies the cast of the entire human body. The manner in which the mutual attraction and activities of the planets of the solar system are executed, can be seen albeit at a microlevel within the atomic family represented by electrons, neutrons etc.
4). Learn To Meditate
In today’s hectic world, learning to meditate can bring a sense of calm and inner satisfaction. The practice of meditation is a gateway into your inner consciousness, resulting in an enhanced awareness of your own existence and your overall relationship to the cosmos.
Whether you are looking to answer the age-old question, “Who am I and why am I here?” or simply to implement simple relaxation techniques meditation may just be the answer for you.
5). Would You Trade Five Minutes Of Your Day For Peace?
Spending five minutes a day meditating can bring much needed peace into your life.
6). The Karma Clearing Process of Energy Enhancement Meditation including the Kundalini Kriyas + Alchemy
Start your Karma Cleaning Process by learning how to meditate and then speed it up with the advanced techniques of Energy Enhancement based upon ancient effective techniques of Taoism, The Kundalini Kriyas, The five elemental circulations of the Qi of Chinese Alchemical Taoism, The Guided Meditation of the Emerald tablet of Hermes Trismegistus encapsulated in VITRIOL and more..
7). The Antahkarana, Bridge, Tower of Babel or Babble, Chakras, Meditation, Gurdjieff, Shakespeare, Guru
The lack of communication between the chakras, or the people building the Tower of Babel, symbolises their lack of integration. Because we are not integrated our psychic bodies will not reach up to heaven. We never managed to contact our Higher Selves. We are not Enlightened.