genshin impact is so confusing because the music team and the environment team clearly do extensive research and put a lot of thought and care into their portrayals of culture and then there’s the character design team
natlan music is amazing. they wrote a whole anthem for the nation but people will literally look at these lyrics (swahili, widely spoken in sub-saharan afric) and see these instruments and continue to deny influence
it’s a bit disappointing to me that the talk about natlan and genshin’s colorism issues are dying down. please keep using your voices. the only way for any kind of change to be made is through consistent protest.