[Rant] Some points about that PC correction in the Definitive Edition, and why it rings hollow

(1) Iroquois is changed to Haudenosaunee, and because that's what they called themselves and apparently calling it a foreign-given name is offensive. But then we don't see the game changing 'Germany' to 'Deutchland' or 'Japan' to 'Nihon' to afford everyone the same kind of respect. While we're at native civilizations, the Aztecs weren't accorded the same kind of respect either, because they're dead - they're called Aztecs instead of say, Mexica, the name they called theselves. Their descendants, the Mexicans, were featured in the 2nd mission of the Steel campaign, but they're just Spanish, and not even reskinned. Like rodeleroes, tercio, spanish. In the late 1800s. Swords and bucklers.

(2) The native dialogue is changed, while the Chinese and Japanese dialogue at least, remain at 'shamefur dispray' levels. A lot of the Asian characters are also voiced by half-Asians of the wrong ethnicity, or outright non-Asians, and the grammar and pronunciations are both wrong. The other European nations weren't that unscathed either.

(3) They took out the things like fire pit dances because it's offensive to portray magical native americans, but the Chinese being led by this shaolin master who is in turn improved by technologies like 'supreme ultimate fist' is apparently ok. Magical natives no, magical asians sure.

(4) The fantastical bits are excised, but apparently not the ideas like the Inca welcoming Amelia Black as a mighty-whitey because she's a descendant of the knight-that-saved-them, the Inca and barrels of sacred water, etc. tropes that also portray Natives in much the same way. Instead of wholesale revising the portrayal of native americans, they decide to keep the fun bits but pay lip service to certain convenient points.

I think all of those points would've been alright if they didn't make such a meal of the whole pc correction thing. They could've quietly made the changes, but instead had to make this whole disclaimer in the menu just to pat themselves in the back for them. Then you actually think about it and realize how hollow it is.