Talk:Kitsune Tails/@comment-3991308-20151223052858/@comment-3991308-20151223212056

No worries. I'm not personally offended. I was just pointing out a common problem that happens when people make OCs from fairytales from Asia.

I think it sounds reasonable to use inspiration from the Japanese side of foxes! In fact, throughout history, Japan, China and Korea often inspired each other's architecture and cultural stories. It's still quite obvious to distinguish between them, as you would know.

Still, it is problematic. Because there's a difference between sharing culture (aka, being inspired by Japanese Kitsune and recognising so), and being taking culture (using a Japanese name for a Korean OC). Mulan couldn't be called Ahri, because it's a Chinese ballad, set in China, about a Chinese girl. To forget that origin is to forget the nuances of that story.

Also, there's a lot of tendency for people (especially white weeaboos), to take Japanese culture and insert it into other East-Asian culture in hopes of making it "cooler" (hint: it's not). Like, it's really common. So common, in fact, that it's seen as a thing called a 'microaggression', which would be fine on its own, but because it happens so much, everytime it happens, it has a worse effect than it would if it just happened once.

In East-Asian cultures, taking a name from a different culture is seen as inherently bad. I know it might not be obvious to you now, but because of the ladder system of East-Asian cultures in the Western World, using a name from a different (East-Asian) culture is seen as insulting to both you and your culture. (Btw, this doesn't refer to using an English name, that's not appropriation, that's assimilation.)

Her name would work if she was both Japanese and Korean, so it wouldn't be culture appropriation, though! That would be an interesting twist if you wanted to take it. A full-Korean kumiho is also cool! I hope you fill out her page a bit more when you get around to it~