as much as I love this manhwa, that last chapter did not sit right with me.
Once again, the country with western influence is put in a good light but one with middle eastern influence is portrayed as evil. That's not ok.
what are you talking about lmao. it literally talks about how their ancestors were enslaved by the western nation. the eastern nation is not evil, but what they are doing is bad. revenge on a country and killing many of their people because of something their ancestors did is wrong. its amazing that it doesnt compute that slavery=bad, just as well as attempted genocide=bad.
Ok, your comment led me to reread the chapter and after doing that, I still stand by my point. It might be good for you to reread it as well after reading mine.
Yes, they were escaped slaves BUT they did not seek revenge. They were prospering after escaping to the land no one wanted.
Because they were prospering, other countries started to see them as a threat and attempted to slaughter/get rid of them. Kanakta decided to attack these countries first, in order to protect their own land/lives. It is portrayed in the chapter that this turned Kanakta evil, as you could say.
This implication is especially prevalent in the following passage, which I'll split up into three parts.
1. "With the oil from the land and wealth it had acquired from other nations, Kanakta became even stronger."
2. "Kanaka got its first taste of invasion,"
3. "and the people began to desire Atlanta"
This passage clearly explains that they did not start attacking other nations for revenge, but out of their own greed, a common characterization for "evil" characters/nations. They chose to plunder/invade instead of trade.
part 1 explains the reason why they would want to do this. They gain wealth, their greed. part 2 is a word choice that is usually used to explain the awakening of villains and is used as such here. Other examples would be, for a murderer, "and they got their first taste of blood." Part 3 explains their next target for their greed.
This chapter clearly is attempting to portray Kankta as villains/evil. This is not acceptable because of where the author/artist most likely drew their influence from for both Atlanta and Kanakta.
I don't come on here to be negative, I don't think anyone does. I'm not trying to find things that are problematic either, but I will point stuff out if it's wrong. Since you saw my comments, you probably also saw the timestamps and how I rarely comment on anything at all. Because of that, I'm not sure why you framed it as if I'm only ever coming on here to cause problems/to call stuff problematic. Can you explain your reasoning?
I am not middle-eastern. I am poc though.
If you want to give your opinion on this, please do. I don't want to speak over/for other minorites. If this comment made you feel like I was, I'm so sorry, let me know what I can do differently.
I really hope she books it out of there after she has enough funds. And I mean like "no one knows where she went" books it.
That way she can open her own shop away from her "family" and live her best life.
Like, their relationship with her doesn't sit right with me.
Yeah, they all watched as she was constantly being verbally and physically abused by Florhetta and her maids. They even stood by as she attempted suicide many times, and on the last attempt it really killed her, which is how the story began with the fl taking over Senianna's body. They also looked down on her because during that time she became meek and made fun of her poor cooking skills. She basically kept calling out for help with the suicide attempts and other things and they never cared or helped!
Ohh,thank you! I understand it better now because I originally thought before I read this was that they didn't care that much her before because the real Senianna was already like you know very hot headed and because of the fits she threw over everything even before Floorheadhuh(sorry idk her name)Came into the picture.And I thought they didn't know that Floorheadhuh was abusing her based off of how surprised they were.
i'm sobbing this is so sad