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The Viceroy
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tu mumbai se, mai Bombay se
Nov 2000
time: 05:33
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Many of the major cities in India were named by the British (or as Bombay was, were anglisized versions of Portugese). Bombay simply means Good Bay (Bom bai) ..
After independace, some in the political establishment took to re-naming everything. Personally, id always seen this as an attempt to deny the imperial past, but you could also see it as an attempt to simply make India Indian again (even though India never actuall existed pre imperialism as a single state). Many of the roads in Bombay are still refered to by the original English names, even though they have had an Indian name for many years.
The final part in this was changing the names of Madras, Calcutta, Bombay. There is currently a move to change the name of Delhi to Dilhi because that was the original name (or so I am informed).
Many complain that road names etc have been simply named after corrupt officials, or as ways of buying support from influential individuals .. and its for that reason that you still find many children of the generation that achieved independance believe India was better under the British.
The youth today though find the whole thing a little odd, they do not carry the concerns of the older generation, and see themselves very much as equals with the west, although American and British culture has become increasingly taken up, which I know worry's the older generation a lot. I think the youth of India are much more confident than the last generation.
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Space05us
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so solly ^^;;
they all play Ultima Online, heres the proof.
http://www.spleens.net/
And I'd place money on the rest of them playing the Sims online or marathon games of Pokemon! Gotta catch them all! (how many are they up to now anyway?)
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LDiCesare
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La Ferté sous Jouarre France
Jan 2001
time: 05:33
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I know from work experience that many japanese don't speak English at all, or even worse than us Frenchmen. Note that I'm talking about engineers, so you might expect them to know English. This may account for the low amount of Japanese around here.
Now here's ab hypothesis about the lack of Japanese at 'Poly: Civ games could be renamed 'Western civ' in the sense the civs, tech tree, units, mostly relate to Europe, North Africa and Middle East. Knights, monotheism, are things that don't make much sense in the Far East, so there is probably much less interest in Japan for a history based game which so poorly describes their own history.
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VetLegion
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Interesting hypothesis. I am less then sure that I would have played a game about shoguns and samurais as extensively as I have played Civ, even it had the same replayability.
The argument to counter that is: what about SMAC, MoO and similar? They are also "civ" in a way and don't come with a "background culture" attached to them.
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