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Cultural Posturing

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Cultural Posturing	comment	When a character holds up one culture (often, but not necessarily their own) as a shining example of development and progression, by uttering something along the lines of "my people/they were putting the finishing touches on quantum chromodynamics while yours were still figuring out how to wipe their bottoms without getting dirty hands." Often as historically justified as it is relevant. Expect the alien who has the opinion that Humans Are the Real Monsters (or humans who believe that Humanity Is Superior) to trot out a similar argument. Compare Can't Argue with Elves — that's when humans or other peoples for some reason don't mind insults at all. Screw You, Elves! happens when they do mind. If this happens between nations, it's Misplaced Nationalism. These four references to other tropes might be actually broader examples of this trope... what other culture do humans (as in you, reader) know but their own human culture? How very meta. Compare While You Were in Diapers. No True Scotsman fallacies may often occur. When people do this to other cultures, it's a Foreign Culture Fetish. Contrast Cultural Cringe and Cultural Personality Makeover.
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Cultural Posturing / int_10bc0a19	comment	Ankh-Morpork also has a tendency to cultural posturing, but usually of a pointedly understated kind. As one upper-class soldier puts it in Night Watch, other countries have to keep telling everyone they're the best; Morporkians just know.
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Cultural Posturing / int_13605458	comment	Gate has a habit of doing this with Japanese culture, due to the author's right-wing sympathies; Japan is the best at everything, and other nations trying to have a say in how they believe the expedition to the other world should be run are just trying to take over from Japan and are obviously evil.
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Cultural Posturing / int_13b632a0	comment	In Ivan the Terrible, Ivan does everything "For the sake of the great Russian kingdom (Ради русского царства великого)!"
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Cultural Posturing / int_1429eb78	comment	Hans von Doering and Germany over the Caribbean, especially Puerto Rico. Later became a staple of All Japan, lording his possession of the Unified Triple Crown Championship belt over all Japanese people.
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Cultural Posturing / int_1858fe06	comment	You probably could swing a stick and find a group that did this in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics). It's one of the main reasons Robotnik/Eggman had total control.
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Cultural Posturing / int_19591e6b	comment	In The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family, Lara's aunt Miriam and cousin Aviva have recently moved to America from Israel and are staying with the Finkels. Much to Lara's irritation, Aviva keeps talking about how much better everything was in Israel, from the food to the music to the public transportation.
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Cultural Posturing / int_1aacbbc9	comment	In Dragon Age, most other nations in Thedas, particularly Orlais, consider Ferelden to be a barely-civilized backwater, populated by people only above their barbarian origins, who stink of wet dog! The typical Ferelden response is to become angry that their dogs were being insulted! In Dragon Age II, Free Marchers tend to get in on this towards the Ferelden refugees in Kirkwall, displaced by the Blight. Jokingly invoked by a Snarky!Hawke, who decides to let a fellow Ferelden who's been caught stealing from their mine off the hook, by claiming to their Orlesian business partner that they were coerced into the theft, by someone who threatened their wife, children and killed their dog; Most of the other races in Thedas are split into factions and none of them really get along. Many of the Dalish look down upon city elves, who they see as abandoning their race and culture and assimilating with their human oppressors (even though they are treated as third-class citizens). City elves tend to think the Dalish are too proud and stuck in the past. Then there are the few ancient elves you encounter, who don't consider modern elves to be real elves at all, but tantamount to humans. The dwarves of Orzammar aren't allowed to grace the surface without being exiled, to the extent of having their names and history erased from all records. Like city elves, "topsiders" are also seen as abandoning their culture, while many surface dwarves are exasperated by Orzammar's rigidly traditionalist culture that has led to the dwarves' dwindling numbers. Meanwhile, defectors of the Qun are not even technically Qunari anymore, and are seen by the latter as savages and treated like enemies much like every other non-Qunari race. Although not actually savages, many Tal-Vashoth do end up becoming bandits or mercenaries due to never learning how to survive outside the strictly structured Qun.
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Cultural Posturing / int_1e40242a	comment	In Mosul (2020), Major Jasem, an Iraqi SWAT officer and Commander Isfahani, an Iranian colonel get into a very heated argument with one another in the hideout of the latter's militia. While Major Jasem insists on the concept of a free Iraq ruled by Iraqis without foreign influence, Isfahani retorts that Iraq hasn't been a real country since Ancient Babylon and would only spell trouble for itself or Iran without Persian guidiance.
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Cultural Posturing / int_22d87fc9	comment	On That '70s Show, Red says to Conspiracy Theorist Hyde: "Damn US Government?! Without our government, you'd be stuck in Siberia now sucking the juice out of a rotten commie potato!"
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Cultural Posturing / int_23165c5d	comment	The Hammer: When Nicaraguan-American Oswaldo and his family tout the superiority of Nicaraguan athletics, his friend Jerry pointedly notes that they seem to love talking about Nicaragua except for the part where they risked their lives to not have to live there anymore.
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Cultural Posturing / int_234b78e5	comment	Changeling: The Dreaming: Most of the Kiths do this, constantly bickering about who was the First Dream. With a notable inversion in the case of the Nockers. They are "modern and proud", rather smugly noting that while the Dreams of noble leaders, revelling animals, or even violent death from something chasing you in the dark are either dead or getting steadily weaker, dreams of Invention and Frustration are getting steadily stronger. Especially since the Industrial Age.
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Cultural Posturing / int_2556d3a0	comment	In Street Scene, an Italian-American and a Swedish-American get into a heated argument over whether Christopher Columbus or Leif Erickson was the first man to discover America.
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Cultural Posturing / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The "We "We bailed you out in World War Two!" argument was subverted in a future episode. When Moe tells Lisa's English fiance that they bailed them out in World War 2, he responds by reminding him that the English bailed the Americans out in World War 3. Moe admits that this is true. Exaggerated in an episode where the family goes to Britain and Homer tries to shame a local telling him out of the blue that the Americans saved the Brits' ass in Vietnam.
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Cultural Posturing / int_285a82fe	comment	Subverted in the My Favorite Martian movie, where Martin starts complaining about his spaceship's "electron accelerator" getting fried and then tells Tim "I'd tell you what it is, but you think E = mc2". It then turns out that an "electron accelerator" is just flowery Technobabble for an alternator taken from Tim's sedan.
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Cultural Posturing / int_298a47a9	comment	The Big Lebowski, regarding Jews. Especially hilarious since the character saying this isn't of Jewish descent, but converted to Judaism for his (now ex-) wife.
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Cultural Posturing / int_2e80e66f	comment	A Diplomatic Visit: A number of ponies act as if their society is better than any from non-ponies, and as shown in Slice n' Dice's story, some go out of their way to deliberately act against the wolves' culture and disrespect it.
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Cultural Posturing / int_3188936d	comment	Things become even more complicated in the graphic novel continuations of the series: Although the war itself has ended, cultural identities have become much fuzzier, especially in areas where Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom culture heavily mixed. This leads to many people struggling to redefine themselves in relation to their neighbors and the wider world. Team Avatar and their allies gradually learn to navigate these troubles and bring balance to war-torn areas, which eventually leads to the formation of the United Republic of Nations featured in Legend of Korra.
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Cultural Posturing / int_33318a24	comment	Of Thee I Sing:
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Cultural Posturing / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater: A major part of Thief's role in the comic is to illustrate that elves aren't nearly as awesome as they claim. He loves pointing out the supposed superiority of Elf civilization and culture, to the point where he refers to almost everything as elven, including common sense and memory. In one comic he starts in on how ancient Elf civilization is, only to be asked by Red Mage why, with a 9000-year head start, they are only as technologically advanced as humans.
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Cultural Posturing / int_34fd3cf6	comment	Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Mooninites are quite fond of this, saying things like "Our race is hundreds of years beyond yours." and "Some would say that the Earth is our moon, but that would belittle the name of the moon... which is the moon." This is rather bizarre, since there only appears to be three of them, who have no discernible culture to speak of (unless nonstop, unfocused jerkassery counts as a culture).
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Cultural Posturing / int_361e9686	comment	In Mythos Effect, the turians exemplify this, especially as they look down on the NEF's use of Magitek, which they consider Sufficiently Advanced tech, probably prothean, which the idiot monkeys found and rationalized as magic. Sparatus in particular, when meeting with the NEF military, refuses to use their actual titles, and insists on calling everyone "human".
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Cultural Posturing / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron: Played for comedy in the "Player's Guide to Eberron" supplement, which features an excerpt from the play "Street Dancers", by Hiorus Brightmane, that appears to be about a half-elf and an urban elf being smug about how great it is to be a half-elf or urban elf and how much better it is than being human or a traditionalist elf. They seem self-aware about it, at least.
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Cultural Posturing / int_3b34143f	comment	The British wizards from Harry Potter always act as though they're far better than muggles. At best they're slightly more advanced. At their very worst they are culturally stagnant, have a Kangaroo Court for a justice system, a government as corrupt as any struggling Third World nation, and their education facilities have downright pathetic safety standards which seems to be par for the course, and the fact they are hiding their magical backwards world from muggle society — making their purported superiority over the Muggles in every way a deliberate joke. Except for medicine since broken bones can be healed with a wave of a wand, entire missing bones can be grown overnight and definitely has a better track record (it still takes hard work to become a Healer, though in the same way for muggles to become doctors.)
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Cultural Posturing / int_3c5675b	comment	Wakanda has been guilty of this especially in the storyline Who is the Black Panther? where in they refuse to give outside countries, especially the US anything even the cure for cancer on the grounds of they’ll somehow weaponize it.
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Cultural Posturing / int_3defe34c	comment	Of course, the whole point is a thoroughly Discussed Trope by some characters who are painfully aware of the Cultural Posturing of their own race - namely, Matriarch Aethyta for the asari, and either Wrex or Eve for the krogan. Garrus also seems highly conscious of turian flaws, especially in the second and third games after he's become more disillusioned and cynical. He even apologizes to Tali at one point for the little bit of posturing he did toward her in the first game. Kaidan has a moment of this toward humanity, arguing that people like Udina are not helping their people's case. For the salarians, Padok Wicks is very critical of his race's tendency to meddle with more primitive species, and all the trouble that's caused for the galaxy.
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Cultural Posturing / int_4139b0e7	comment	In Unforgiven, up until he runs into Little Bill, English Bob spends pretty much every minute of screen time extolling the supposed superiority of the British monarchy in the context of the recent assassination attempt on President Garfield.
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Cultural Posturing / int_4522fd1	comment	Kismet and her friends in the Whateley Universe. Kismet is Belgian, and her group at Superhero School Whateley Academy is so pro-European (Western Europe at that) and anti-American that they are known around the school as the 'Beret Mafia'.
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Cultural Posturing / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: The Narrator does it in Mort, although his definition of cultural superiority makes it clear it's a parody: Klatch "had 15 words for assassination before the rest of the world had caught on to the idea of hitting each other with rocks". An understated example in Jingo: In Pyramids, in the country of Djelibeybi (heavily based on Ancient Egypt), the High Priest reminds the king that "your family was on its third dynasty before our neighbors had worked out, sire, how babies are made." Ankh-Morpork also has a tendency to cultural posturing, but usually of a pointedly understated kind. As one upper-class soldier puts it in Night Watch, other countries have to keep telling everyone they're the best; Morporkians just know.
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Cultural Posturing / int_48358aca	comment	The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove: When Judah Benjamin, as Confederate Secretary of State, is negotiating with his U.S. counterpart Ben Butler, Butler uses anti-Semitic comments to try and rile Benjamin up, and Benjamin responds with, "While your ancestors were boar-hunting cavemen, mine were princes of the Earth."
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Cultural Posturing / int_49a0a477	comment	There's a comment in Snow Crash to the effect that while the Yakuza are called the Japanese Mafia, no one ever calls The Mafia the Italian Yakuza.
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Cultural Posturing / int_49ad83ee	comment	The Night Elves and Blood Elves of World of Warcraft and the Reign of Chaos tend to have a high opinion of themselves and their role in the world. It's more obvious with the Blood Elves, while you need to look at the political actions of the Night Elves to see it. To explain on the Night Elves: Their first reaction on seeing the orcs harvesting wood was not to warn them the woods were under their control; it was to launch an immediate attack. Once they learned of the Blood Elves, they sent covert teams into Quel'thalas to sabotage their magic. And when they wanted to bring up their concerns about potential Horde attacks on their villages, they did so by crashing a memorial for human soldiers. Newer lore reveals, however, the Night Elves sought third parties that knew of the orcs (The Goblins) and informed themselves of their past, and the one who decided to launch the assault, was Cenarius. The covert teams into Quel'thalas were meant to spy on the Blood Elves for they suspected they were involved in Fel Magic (which they were). It's worth pointing out that the Night Elves got a LOT less xenophobic in the transition from Warcraft III to World of Warcraft. This probably had a lot to do with them going from being their own faction in War 3 to being part of the Alliance in WoW. Oddly, the same thing didn't happen with the Undead joining the Horde... at least, not right away. The newly added Shen'dralar Highborne elves, however, often play it straight.
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Cultural Posturing / int_49b587be	comment	The Knight from The Canterbury Tales does this for ancient Greece, making this trope Older Than Print.
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Cultural Posturing / int_4c1c835b	comment	In one of the Star Trek: Millennium novels, a Bajoran mentions how her people were architects and artists when "Cardassians were still swimming through swamps catching fish in their mouths".
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Cultural Posturing / int_4c44acb7	comment	Spontaneously parodied in an episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, by having the subject of pride be completely daft. Humph mentions the traditional Yorkshire folk song "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'At" and mumbles that he doesn't know what it means. Barry Cryer — regular panelist, and born in Leeds — speaks up.
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Cultural Posturing / int_4f14e537	comment	The New Adventures of Invader Zim: It's made clear by Darth's comments on the subject in Season 2 Episode 11 that even many of the Irkens who don't believe in outright Fantastic Racism still view themselves as naturally superior to other species, and that this therefore justifies their conquest of the universe.
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Cultural Posturing / int_543226f	comment	In the Dreamblood Duology, Kisuati are quick to remind the Gujaareen that Gujaareh is a daughter-state of Kisua that's become corrupted in the eyes of the Kisuati.
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Cultural Posturing / int_553051f	comment	According to the Green Lantern comics, Earth is considered a primitive backwater planet by most other species in the DC universe. Indeed, Abin Sur's last words as he handed his ring over to Hal Jordan were, "Heh. An Earthman. Never thought I'd live to..."
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Cultural Posturing / int_558b4c84	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy: King J'son of Spartax (or Spartoi) spends a lot of his time going on about how humans are dumb and stupid and ugly and etc. His son is half-human. Actually gets to a point in Infinity when J-Son starts getting angry about humans being brought into a war planning session, telling them they'll only be useful if they need cannon fodder. The Supreme Intelligence pipes up by comparing Earth's success rate against the Kree Empire to that of Spartax. Humanity's success rate is much higher - essentially as close as the Supreme Intelligence gets to "dude, just shut up."
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Cultural Posturing / int_56fa0ea4	comment	Cultural Victory in any game of the Civilization series boils down to this - being the most cultured civilization in the world. In vanilla V, for example, it's earned by accumulating enough Culture points over the course of the game to complete five Social Policy trees and then build the Utopia Project before another civilization does the same thing or fulfills any other victory condition. However, the Cultural Victory has been overhauled in the Brave New World expansion; while you still cannot really be a contender for this victory type without producing huge amounts of Culture per turn and constructing a lot of Wonders, instead of building the Utopia Project, you need to make sure that your total Tourism per each civilization is higher than their total Culture, which essentially means that in case of success your culture displaces all other civilizations' cultures within their own habitats of origin and development. In both vanilla and expansion cases, if you manage to do the condition required, it's game over no matter how puny you might be in terms of military or occupied land area compared to the other civs. Being a game mechanic in V and VI, the "Culture Bomb" allows you to capture all tiles adjacent to the one on which it occurred, providing an unusual, non-violent way to take over nearby territory. Its uniqueness comes from the fact that it does so regardless of whether the territory is unowned or controlled by someone, and while the former seems to be a bit atypical example of Settling the Frontier, the latter apparently has some connection to this trope, albeit only when targeting land tiles (as obviously there cannot be any posturing without a populace to appreciate the splendor of your culture and succumb to its influence): In vanilla V, the "Culture Bomb" is a unique ability of the Great Artists, unambiguously implying that neighbor civ's tiles will become your property due to how very cultured you are! In the Gods & Kings expansion, though, the Great Artists were deprived of this now nominally removed ability, the effect of which was instead given to the Great Generals to make their own "Construct a Citadel" ability even more useful, at the cost of abandoning the trope. In VI, the "Culture Bomb" is much more common since it has a lot of potential sources of triggering, the most notable of which are civilization-specific ones that require you to build something (e.g., an Encampment or a Fort as Poland or a Pasture as Australia), thus presumably reflecting the superiority of the civilization's cultural way and thereby convincing everyone around the "bombed" tile to follow it as well by joining the civ in question. Civilization: Beyond Earth, a franchise spinoff, doesn't have a Cultural Victory per se at all but at least partially makes up for it by having such a leader as Élodie, the leader of the Franco-Iberia colonial sponsor - she is a firm believer that Western Europe has a superior culture to everyone else. Naturally, it is her faction that is the most culture-focused one.
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Cultural Posturing / int_58d80a4a	comment	An understated example in Jingo:
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Cultural Posturing / int_59c6fbf5	comment	The Ballard Brothers and Canada, often overlooking the fact they had an American valet. They've actually had a string of American valets.
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Cultural Posturing / int_5db4b412	comment	"El Leon" Apolo and the superiority of Puerto Ricans, especially if it is a World Wrestling League show in Mexico and he happens to be talking to a Mexican. Even more especially if Cien Caras is around. Carlito Colón and Ivelisse Vélez aren't quite as demeaning to Mexicans but have still proclaimed Puerto Rico to be "The Greatest Place Ever".
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Cultural Posturing / int_5dbbf8fb	comment	The real-life "debates" over which of the Allies "really" won World War II (see below) are referenced in Night Watch (Series), where at one point Anton's friend Las sports a Fun T-Shirt with a Red Army soldier fighting an American G.I. Anton's narration makes it clear which side his bread is buttered on, but it's mostly Played for Laughsnote and it had better be, considering the Grey-and-Gray Morality of the series and the global nature of the Watches' work.
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Cultural Posturing / int_60f02ddb	comment	In the American Dad! episode "Spelling Bee My Baby", Mrs. Yoshida claims she'll win a fight with Francine since they'll be fighting to the death and "[she's] Asian, this is [her] culture." Cue a substantial loss of confidence when it's revealed that Francine also has an Asian background thanks to her adoptive Chinese parents.
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Cultural Posturing / int_6155364	comment	Wolfenstein: The New Order: Extremely ironic example, when the Nazis lord themselves over the world due to their great leaps in unbelievably advanced science... which they stole from Jewish scientists, the Da'at Yichud. The crux of this irony is that the secret to the Da'at Yichud's success was due to the implementation of their culture in the scientific method (make strange things for the sake of understanding the universe and not material gain, store material possessions away from prying eyes, give technology to fellow men and receive it in return, etc.). The Nazis have effectively belittled and slaughtered an entire culture of absurdly-brilliant geniuses. When you think about it, cultural posturing throughout the ages has effectively stunted the potential of the average citizen, which was rejected by members of the Da'at Yichud and allowed them and their members to unlock humanity's full potential in secret.
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Cultural Posturing / int_67ce5a04	comment	Fire Emblem Fates: One of the few things that make the generally benevolent Hoshido grey is their tendency to characterize all citizens of Nohr as wicked monsters when the truth is that it is really just Garon, his advisor Iago and their chief general Hans. This has the result of making the Hoshido characters look a tad racist during the Conquest route, as they insist that the player character must have been brainwashed as they continue to plead for peace between Nohr and Hoshido.
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Cultural Posturing / int_68c7e5cd	comment	Macross Frontier: While she isn't a jerk about it, Klan Klan is extremely proud of her Zentraedi heritage and frequently makes comments about Zentraedi weapons being superior to human-designed ones. Interestingly, though, in one episode that deals with a group of Zentraedi rebels who wish to return to "the old ways" before they met humanity, Klan calls them "a disgrace to all Zentraedi".
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Cultural Posturing / int_6abf16c2	comment	Shadovar of the Technomancers manages to give one to the Time Lords in the Big Finish Doctor Who story "Legion of the Lost", telling Co-Ordinator Jarad "The ways of my people are as incomprehensible to you as your technology would be to monocellular organisms."
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Cultural Posturing / int_6bc0f10a	comment	Subverted in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). With the life of the last woman in the galaxy hanging in the balance and a monstrous bureaucracy keeping the heroes from rescuing her, Arthur Dent takes a deep breath and announces, "I'm British, I know how to queue." And then he quickly gives up after seeing that waiting in line is going to take too long.
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Cultural Posturing / int_6d87b845	comment	A Fish Called Wanda has Kevin Kline's character, an American in England, randomly spouting this when annoyed. "If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking German!". He says this right after claiming that Britain would be "the smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire."
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Cultural Posturing / int_6dcfae40	comment	The Inhumans often look down on humanity for being primitive because their society had advanced technology (imported from the same aliens that uplifted them) while the rest of humanity were hunter-gatherers. Also they're a society of superhumans. In the Ultimate continuity, this was so bad that they move to Moon because the Fantastic Four visited their settlement and breathed the same air as them.
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Cultural Posturing / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The Nox are a non-human race of pacifists who live a simple life because they are so technologically advanced that they can afford to be neutral pacifists who don't need to fight the Goa'uld; the Goa'uld are simply no threat to them and they can also cloak entire cities from detection and heal the recently dead. They call the humans of Earth 'children' and constantly refer to Earth humans doing things they disapprove of as 'children often do not do as they are told'. The condescending nature of this position does grate on the humans, but some of them also accept it as inevitable given the vast inequality in technological knowledge between the two species — mainly because the Nox have given them no choice but to accept it. The Tollans refused to co-operate with the SGC because they viewed them as so primitive that the Tollans considered it a miracle they'd ever managed to get the Stargate working. Daniel calls them out on their rudeness by comparing their condescension with that of the Nox, commenting that the Nox at least had the manners to refer to the humans of Earth as 'children' instead of 'primitives'. He ends up introducing the Tollans and the Nox to each other in order to protect the Tollans from Earth politics. While it sets up a lasting alliance between Earth and Tollana, it inevitably creates such a one-sided, condescending relationship that Earth has to practically bully Tollana into defending itself when the Goa'uld threaten the existence of Tollana. By that point, it's too late, and Tollana is believed to have been completely wiped out by Anubis's subordinates. Samantha's father (during his stint of being possessed by a Tok'ra) told her that Earth humanity was an inexperienced race. It wasn't meant to be derisive, but a simple statement of fact, as Earth had barely begun fighting the Goa'uld a couple of years ago, while the Tok'ra had been doing so for centuries (with a conspicuous lack of progress). Subverted by the Asgard who will openly admit that they're more advanced (that's rather self-evident), but they aren't arrogant or condescending about it. They respect humanity for the achievements they've made and see a potential for greatness in humans. They are also able to admit when they need humanity's help; Thor half-jokingly refers to them needing a human's "dumb ideas" to reach conclusions and solutions that the Asgard cannot on their own. The Goa'uld have also lapsed into this at times, whenever they feel the need to brag, such as Zipacna at the Tollan trial, who points out that Goa'uld have had advanced tech for thousands of years while humanity has barely landed on their moon. Daniel tries to take the wind out of his sails by pointing out that the Goa'uld stole that technology from the Ancients rather than innovate it themselves. Zipacna doesn't see why that should matter: the point is they got the tech, and humanity did not.
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Cultural Posturing / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: This essentially prompted Fire Lord Sozin to initiate the Hundred Year War in the first place, as a way of “sharing” his nation’s booming prosperity and rich culture with the rest of the world. Decades down the line this mentality was still being taught to Fire Nation children (Zuko and Azula both learned it). Things become even more complicated in the graphic novel continuations of the series: Although the war itself has ended, cultural identities have become much fuzzier, especially in areas where Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom culture heavily mixed. This leads to many people struggling to redefine themselves in relation to their neighbors and the wider world. Team Avatar and their allies gradually learn to navigate these troubles and bring balance to war-torn areas, which eventually leads to the formation of the United Republic of Nations featured in Legend of Korra.
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Cultural Posturing / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Bajorans had a beautiful and advanced civilization and culture — not warp-drive advanced, but still, advanced — back when human beings were still learning to walk upright. Of course, that was before the Cardassians took over. They were also apparently culturally stagnant for millennia. Dukat once says of the occupation that it was obvious the Cardassians were the superior people in every way — societally, technologically and culturally. All that conflict was clearly their fault for wanting to be equal. Garak talks a lot about how great Cardassian culture was, mostly to Bashir. Of note, Cardassia exiled Garak, possibly because he refused to torture children to satisfy the pointless whims of a bureaucracy. Apparently, the Romulans like to do this — according to O'Brien in "Explorers", there is "not a single piece of technology that they don't claim they had before anyone else did." The Founders, ye gods the Founders take this, combine it with Fantastic Racism and ramp it up, although the only people who actually seem to buy it are the ones who are genetically programmed to do so. In fact, even some of the things that they posture about are Informed Attributes at best, their much-vaunted curiosity really doesn't ring true; the only thing they seem to bother to learn about other races is how to infiltrate them.
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Cultural Posturing / int_742c4b29	comment	Democracy: The moment Leander sets his feet at Delphi, Antenor immediately takes him on a tour and shows him the "Room with the Treasures", the warehouse where they stock the other city-states' sacrifices and gifts. He says that they have it, so their riches will discourage the other ones.
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Cultural Posturing / int_745711f9	comment	In Look to the West Part 276.3, a Chinese diplomat tells the French ambassador "I need not remind you that China was a great civilisation when your ancestors were still chucking axes at legionaries of the Daqin Empire."
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Cultural Posturing / int_74c659e6	comment	Quite common in Rocket Age, especially from the Europans.
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Cultural Posturing / int_76cb191b	comment	In an issue of The Invisibles where King Mob travels back in time, this exchange occurs:
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Cultural Posturing / int_77677ed1	comment	The Morrigi from Sword of the Stars are very fond of this. When your species is so old that interstellar traders and explorers from your civilization created the myths of Dragons in other species in the same galaxy during their stone ages, you may be justified doing it. Also myths of Angels
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Cultural Posturing / int_787a2d88	comment	Rikidozan and Japan, even though he was Korean. (Japan was more inflammatory to US crowds, due to World War II)
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Cultural Posturing / int_7988cb68	comment	Javik, in Mass Effect, the last Prothean would like to remind you that during his time, the asari hadn't invented writing, and the salarians were still eating flies. Repeatedly. At every conceivable opportunity. Sometimes he would just spout patronizing things about other cultures entirely at random. He even manages to do this when he's praising you. When you talk with him on the Citadel, he's approached by several aliens who overhear you mention that he's Prothean (among these is a very religious hanar, who worship the Protheans). After he gives them a pep talk, Shepard can reply to the audience asking what he's like by saying he's a good ally to have around. Javik's response: Then sarcastically parodied in the Citadel DLC: Shepard can even get in on this. Every time the Reapers try to lord their superiority over them, stating that Shepard's attempts to delay the inevitable are foolish since Resistance Is Futile; Shepard counters that the Reapers clearly seem to be unaware that most humans won't even submit to their own people in authority, let alone will simply lay down and let themselves be subjugated without putting up a fight; The turians, particularly in the first game have shades of this towards Humanity, due to residual animosity left over from the First Contact War. The scary thing is that their assessment that both sides could wipe out the other is right. Mordin states in the second game that the Salarian Government did hypothetical projections of what would happen if the turians and the humans ever ended up fighting a prolonged war and the best scenario ended with both races likely wiping themselves out, but not before both sides had practically destroyed a quarter of the Galaxy first! All the Council races do this, in a constant cycle of posturing at each other. The asari remind everyone that they're so diplomatic and wise, the salarians want you to know that they're the smartest and the cleverest, the turians have to point out that they can wipe the floor with everyone else in a straight-up fight, and then the Humans butt in to say they're almost as good diplomats as the asari, almost as smart as the salarians, nearly as tough as the turians, and they've only been doing this for 50 years, so there. And then there are the krogan. Krogan bluster mostly comes in two forms: "we are bigger and tougher than you and that is why we are better" and, as a subset of the first, "none of you would survive Tuchanka for more than ten seconds". Thankfully, Wrex has grown very disillusioned with his people over the past thousand years or so, and Grunt was mostly "raised" on glorious legends and videos of old battles with no actual emotional connection and responds to his first sight of Tuchanka with a wordier version of "what a shithole", so you're mostly spared this from your teammates. Of course, the whole point is a thoroughly Discussed Trope by some characters who are painfully aware of the Cultural Posturing of their own race - namely, Matriarch Aethyta for the asari, and either Wrex or Eve for the krogan. Garrus also seems highly conscious of turian flaws, especially in the second and third games after he's become more disillusioned and cynical. He even apologizes to Tali at one point for the little bit of posturing he did toward her in the first game. Kaidan has a moment of this toward humanity, arguing that people like Udina are not helping their people's case. For the salarians, Padok Wicks is very critical of his race's tendency to meddle with more primitive species, and all the trouble that's caused for the galaxy. The Reapers almost seem to enjoy this. They constantly remind Shepard how superior they are to everything else in the galaxy, how all life is just their experiment and their plaything, how everything else in the Milky Way is completely at their mercy and can be terminated whenever they wish it.
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Cultural Posturing / int_79ab0b3c	comment	One short story from the Tortall Universe is about Nawat and Aly's experience as new parents. Nawat insists on raising the babies (who did come out as babies and not chicks) the crow way; he rants about how stupid diapers are and how much better it is that chicks defecate outside the nest. Accordingly, he sneaks the triplets to the window whenever he gets a chance, which causes a diplomatic incident when the mess hits an ambassador's secretary. After yelling at him for holding babies out of the two-story window, it takes Aly about five minutes to come up with a compromise.
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Cultural Posturing / int_7fbd6753	comment	Thunder Cats 2011: While reciting an oral history during a Rite of Passage, Thundera's King Claudus, monarch of a Proud Warrior Race of Cats, styles his Thundercats as the great civilizers of Third Earth, who "brought law and order to a world of warring Animals", a statement symptomatic of his people's belief that Cats Are Superior and a cultural narrative Written by the Winners.
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Cultural Posturing / int_8149f2c9	comment	Impractical Magic: Yam is the victim of Fantastic Racism and as such overcompensates by being too proud of the Len's concept of a 'Virtue'. He frequently dismisses humans as being unaware bigots while referring to them as uncultured savages.
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Cultural Posturing / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: A minor Running Gag with Pavel Chekov (most prominent in "The Trouble with Tribbles") is that he claims that many things are a "Russian inwention" or were located in Russia. According to him, Pavel Chekov claims that Scotch whiskey was inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad,note He's probably trolling Scotty with this one., the Garden of Eden was just outside Moscow, and "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" is an old Russian proverb — in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, he does this with the tale of Cinderella. While such clownish national pride would be considered a little insulting in modern times, the show was written at the height of the Cold War and was thus a rather big step up in the depiction of the Russian character. However, in the video game Judgment Rites, an alcoholic beverage that Chekov said was first created in Russia actually turns out to have been first created in Russia. Spock and McCoy love to posture their respective Vulcan and human cultures to each other. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard enjoys looking down on Q, even quoting Shakespeare to him until Q gets disgusted and left. Q, of course, provokes this intentionally.
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Cultural Posturing / int_81bd02f4	comment	And as a spoof of a parody, the The Armstrong and Miller Show version, "Foreigners":
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Cultural Posturing / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Galactic Civilizations: It's possible to win just by being sufficiently smug about your culture and building a ton of broadcasters to convince their worlds that it is better. Of course, if you try this too blatantly on someone with a stronger military than you, there will be pain.
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Cultural Posturing / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: Quite a few times, the various alien races and humans that interact end up doing this to each other. Andalites, being a race of Straw Vulcans, do this frequently. Ax makes no secret of his intellectual superiority over humans, Elfangor and Arbron are befuddled by how humans are even capable of walking, and any given Andalite military commander that the Animorphs encounter is guaranteed to be arrogant and dismissive of non-Andalites. The Animorphs vary between finding this amusing (such as when Ax fails to hide that he's a Book Dumb slacker by Andalite standards), or frustrating. #10 did this with the Pemalites vs. the Andalites, where Erik tells the Animorphs that Pemalites had FTL travel long before Andalites discovered fire, annoying Ax. Funnily enough, "The Ellimist Chronicles" later revealed that the Pemalites didn't even exist when the Andalites were living in tribal societies. #26 did this with the Howlers, but it was pointed out that a head start in years didn't necessarily make them smarter.
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Cultural Posturing / int_93683e89	comment	Not the Nine O'Clock News had a comment on the bellicose nature of the US under Reagan as "trying to make up for being late to the last two world wars by being really punctual this time".
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Cultural Posturing / int_954f38b0	comment	The Great Muta says Seiya Sanada is the greatest X-Division Champion there is. He beat all American wrestlers!
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Cultural Posturing / int_99c003af	comment	Uncle Ruckus of The Boondocks believes white people did everything good throughout history, and that blacks like himself... didn't.
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Cultural Posturing / int_99e49e94	comment	Bug Fables: Beette constantly brags about how the Bee Kingdom has the best culture of all. This disgusts Vi, a bee who left the hive after falling out with her sister and employer, to the point that she refuses to interact with Beette at all until settling her issues with the Bee Kingdom.
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Cultural Posturing / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: A minor Running Gag with Pavel Chekov (most prominent in "The Trouble with Tribbles") is that he claims that many things are a "Russian inwention" or were located in Russia. According to him, Pavel Chekov claims that Scotch whiskey was inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad,note He's probably trolling Scotty with this one., the Garden of Eden was just outside Moscow, and "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" is an old Russian proverb — in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, he does this with the tale of Cinderella. While such clownish national pride would be considered a little insulting in modern times, the show was written at the height of the Cold War and was thus a rather big step up in the depiction of the Russian character. However, in the video game Judgment Rites, an alcoholic beverage that Chekov said was first created in Russia actually turns out to have been first created in Russia. Spock and McCoy love to posture their respective Vulcan and human cultures to each other.
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Cultural Posturing / int_9a92010c	comment	Eva in We Need to Talk About Kevin has Armenian heritage she is very proud of and she likes to think she's above the coarse behaviour of Americans that she disdains, but as Kevin rather bluntly points out, she's just as bad as the people she sneers at.
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Cultural Posturing / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls The Altmer (High Elves) take the cake as the haughtiest culture in Tamriel. They are a tall, golden-skinned race of Mer with exceptional natural aptitude for magic and are responsible for much of Tamriel's art, science, philosophy, language, and religion, fitting squarely within the idea of Crystal Spires and Togas as a race. They are the direct descendants of the Aldmer (Precursors to all modern races of Mer) and consider the other races of Mer as a result of "degeneration" over the ages. (And don't even bother trying to bring up the races of Men...) Their religious beliefs state that they are the true descendants of the Aedra ("Our Ancestors" in old Aldmeris), the deities who aided in the creation of the mortal world, known as Mundus. They believe the creation of Mundus was a cruel trick on the part of the dead creator god, Lorkhan, which robbed their divine ancestors of their pre-creation divinity, forcing them to experience mortal suffering, loss, and death. And while there are exceptions, most Altmer are proud to bring up any of the aforementioned facts whenever they get the chance. Their culture did suffer a Break the Haughty moment in the late 2nd Era, when Tiber Septim used the Dwemer-constructed Numidium to deal the Altmer a Curb-Stomp Battle defeat in which their capital city was sacked in less than an hour, forcing them to join an Empire of Men by conquest for the first time in their history. When the Septim Dynasty ended at the start of the 4th Era, the Altmer rose once again under the leadership of the extremist Thalmor, reforming the Aldmeri Dominion of old. The Dunmer (Dark Elves) were not far behind their Altmer cousins in terms of haughtiness at their cultural height. They were an extremely xenophobic race who hated outlanders within their homeland of Morrowind, but had no issue with raiding Black Marsh or Elsweyr to take Argonian and Khajiiti slaves. The Tribunal Temple, which by the 3rd Era had become a shining example of a Corrupt Church full of Knights Templar who followed their Physical Gods (the Tribunal) to a fault. Hypocrisy was rampant in their culture where, for instance, they would sic their Church Police on anyone accused of practicing necromancy with orders to kill on sight, while the Dunmer themselves would summon the bodies and spirits of their ancestors for protection, considering it a "holy act" when they do it. However, the events of Morrowind, the Oblivion Crisis, the Red Year, and finally the Argonian Invasion were a major Break the Haughty series of events for the Dunmer. Their homeland was choked with volcanic ash and the still-habitable parts were under the control of their long-time Slave Race, forcing the Dunmer people to flee to the frozen, barren island of Solstheim and to Skyrim, where they are treated as second-class citizens (at best) by the native, Elf-hating Nords. The Imperials of Cyrodiil have displayed this whenever they have been leading their various empires that have spanned most or all of Tamriel. As they conquer new lands, they have traditionally enforced their rather liberal Imperial values, including a heavy focus on mercantilism and trade as well as significant religious tolerance, believing them to be superior to the "barbaric" cultures they are replacing and leading to plenty of Culture Clash. (Given that a lot of the cultures they have replaced were rife with racism, classism, and every other negative "-ism" you can think of, they weren't entirely unjustified in this belief.) Following the fall of the Septim Dynasty's Third Empire, as seen in Skyrim, this is happening quite a bit toward the Nords. The Imperials love to point out how their glorious cosmopolitan empire is superior to the barbaric, frozen wilderness of Skyrim. Note that this isn't Fantastic Racism because it's the Nord culture that is looked down upon, not the actual Nord race, though you'd be forgiven for pointing out that this is a distinction without a difference. Best summed up by General Tullius, the military governor in charge of bringing Skyrim back under Imperial control; Alduin and most of the Dragons ("Dov") often seem to invoke this towards the Dragonborn. It's shown that they view the Dragonborn as their equivalent of a Humanoid Abomination, repeatedly berating them for having the sheer audacity to take the name of "Dovahkiin" for themselves, despite the fact they are clearly not a true member of "Dragonkind". In the mod Tamriel Rebuilt, the player can visit the Imperial Curia in Old Ebornheart, which has a mosaic window depiciting Vivec prostrating himself before a grandstanding Tiber Septim. It is a bit of a... biased take on signing of the Treaty of the Armistice, which in reality was much closer to an amicable agreement between two Worthy Opponents, resulting in the Voluntary Vassalisation of Morrowind, than the ignoble surrender to a victorious conqueror that mosaic would like to imply.
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Cultural Posturing / int_9d47a2a2	comment	As was the case in the books, Game of Thrones is thick with people posturing cultures. It really stands out in the History and Lore of Westeros animation extras that accompany the boxed disc sets of each season—these segments are narrated by one (or several) characters. Many of them, when speaking of their homeland (by birth or by ancestry), are quick to brag about its martial prowess, its great achievements, or its social progressiveness—often coupled with a snarky putdown of other cultures found in the series. As noted in the Literature section above, the Wildlings love posturing—both Ygritte and Tormund Giantsbane do this in their respective segments. Oberyn Martell, in a Season 4 History and Lore segment on his house, says of Dorne's long tradition of equal respect and fealty to nobility of both sexes: "For unlike the rest of Westeros, our loyalty isn't commanded by a cock."
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Cultural Posturing / int_a0305e75	comment	The film Wolfen is pretty low key in this regard until the last act, when the protagonist arrives shell-shocked at a Native American bar after his friend was mauled by a wolf. The Native American characters (one of whom is a Latino) begin rapid-fire exposition/cultural posturing as they affirm their way of life is better, the wolf spirits are above our morality, white man's technology has failed him, and he's basically facing gods dishing out divine punishment. Light-handed, it was not. Amusingly, the only two Native American cultures with legends that are directly comparable to werewolves ("skinwalkers", yee naaldlooshii in Navajo and popwaktu in Hopi)...consider them to be Black Magic that can't even be used without crossing a Moral Event Horizon (the Navajo usually say by incest or fratricide, the Hopi by incest or cannibalism). Both tribes' gods have major ceremonies for warding off such witchery (essentially like the original European Christian view of werewolves, who viewed this a form of witchcraft, a crime punishable by death).
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Cultural Posturing / int_a0ae8b12	comment	In an episode of Steptoe and Son where 'arold and his father get into a fight on a plane; when an American tries to stop it/join in, dad pushes him away with a contemptuous "Late again!", referring to the common English perception about American involvement in World War 2.
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Cultural Posturing / int_a0ff9e30	comment	In Pyramids, in the country of Djelibeybi (heavily based on Ancient Egypt), the High Priest reminds the king that "your family was on its third dynasty before our neighbors had worked out, sire, how babies are made."
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Cultural Posturing / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing: After trying (and failing) to get Lord John Marbury, the new British Ambassador to the United States, to support a new missile shield defense system that Leo is supporting, Leo takes him aside at a dinner party pretty much for the sole reason of snottily reminding him who kicked whose ass at the Battle of Yorktown in the American War of Independence. In another episode, the same two characters memorably avert this, when Marbury concisely defines the "original sins" of their two nations: Ireland (UK) and slavery (US).
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Cultural Posturing / int_a59e5413	comment	Spoofed throughout My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
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Cultural Posturing / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Some Men of Numenor hold themselves superior to the low men of the Southlands and think of themselves of being a "better breeding" for a She-Elf than a southlander, as can be seen from the exchange between them and Halbrand.
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Cultural Posturing / int_a86b7660	comment	Due South: Fraser mentions the War of 1812 to a class of schoolkids. "Your country invaded our country and we sent you packing."
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Cultural Posturing / int_aab02655	comment	Civil War (2006): Subverted by The Punisher, of all people, during an argument with Captain America.
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Cultural Posturing / int_ad20e006	comment	Wonder Woman (1975): Queen Hippolyte reigns at Paradise Island, a Lady Land Hidden Elf Village of immortals, and remembers that wmen were slaves for the Romans and the Greeks. After some thousands of years being an immortal, she is not fond of any culture in the outside world:
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Cultural Posturing / int_ad71cb5c	comment	A Bad Week at the Wizengamot: The primary reason Fudge never considered that Harry would be able to pursue further education at another school outside Britain is his belief that being British automatically makes Hogwarts the best magical school in the world, and therefore there'd be no reason for Harry to try schooling elsewhere. He also dismisses provable claims that Hogwarts is actually far behind most other magic schools on most subjects, again due to his fervent belief in British superiority.
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Cultural Posturing / int_b0f81f82	comment	In Chicken Run, Fowler complains that Americans are "always showing up late for every war." At another point, he calls them "overpaid, oversexed, and over here", which was a derogatory phrase in World War II-era Australia.
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Cultural Posturing / int_b1058237	comment	Temeraire, a Chinese-born dragon, to his Tswana captors: "My ancestors were scholars in China while yours were slaves in pits!" Something of an Out-of-Character Moment for him, incidentally, as the rights of dragons are a major concern of his - though it is at least somewhat explained by the fact that he's worried for his captain and crew, and (a touch ironically) offended by being compared to slavers. In general, he tends to get a bit touchy about his Chinese ancestry whenever his pride is offended.
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Cultural Posturing / int_b3454ebd	comment	In the Starsky & Hutch episode "A Body Worth Guarding," the guys are assigned to bodyguard a snobby Russian ballerina who is always complaining about American culture. As Hutch puts it, "I don't want to do any flag-waving, but every time she says 'America' it sounds like something that makes her nauseous."
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Cultural Posturing / int_b50aa03f	comment	The Calvarians of The Reynard Cycle will do this at the drop of a hat. If they bother to talk to you at all. In spite of the fact that Calvaria is clearly The Empire, and is policed by an organization that murdered his infant son, the exiled Isengrim still can't help but point out the many ways that Calvarians are superior to the rest of the world. When asked if he misses the place, he says "no" in the Southern tongue, pauses, and then says "yes" in the Northern tongue.
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Cultural Posturing / int_b683f90f	comment	In the Perry Rhodan universe, this is very much the Arkonides' 'Hat' — traditionally, the actual inhabitants of Arkon look down on their neighbors, all of them look down on other species, and so on. Regarding Earth, the traditionalists' position is that they had starflight while Terrans were still living in caves and digging up grubs and 'Larsaf III' is just a lost colony anyway (Atlantis was in fact one of their settlements thousands of years ago, although the natives were already in place). They don't let the historical fact that Arkon itself turns out to be merely a colony of a colony dating back to Earth's first interstellar empire that was devastated by war some 50,000 years ago get in their way in the slightest, of course.
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Cultural Posturing / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Extremely violent posturing is the rule of the day in interspecies relations in Warhammer 40,000, where one side, or usually both, tout the superiority of their own culture and history as they blast their foes to bits. The Eldar are particularly guilty of this. It's made all the more stupid on their part because humanity didn't destroy their own civilization via a galaxy-wide orgy that birthed a god that feeds on souls. They also refuse to believe that they could be in the wrong at any point or that someone else might have a good plan for stopping something (they once tried to destroy an entire planet in an effort to safeguard a long-buried craft world from the Tyranids and apparently refused to believe that the Blood Ravens could fight it off). This is best illustrated (along with an epic Shut Up, Hannibal!) in this quote: And ironically averted by the Necrons, who predate everyone else- and never speak, let alone posture. They just cut right to the killing. There are Necron lords who speak but they mainly just trick others to get what they want or tell them that everyone would be better off dead without posturing. There's a good amount of evidence to say they're not completely wrong about that. Apparently they got into this with the Old Ones (whose tech was less advanced but supplemented by extremely powerful psychic powers) while they were still the Necrontyr. The resulting war almost sterilized the galaxy. Orks will happily look down on orks from different clans for not being like their own and go to war with them for that same reason: the Goffs are the toughest/are brutal killjoys, the Blood Axes are the most effective/are cowards who use tactics and subterfuge, the Speed Freeks are the fastest/are insane, etc. Interservice Rivalry still very much being a thing in the far future, this is an almost inevitable consequence of different branches of the Imperium's armed forces working together, be it two Space Marine Chapters or Imperial Guard regiments. Ciaphas Cain's early career involved making a mixed-gender regiment out of the remnants of an all-male planetary assault and an all-female garrison regiment where the commanding officer had three days' seniority over her male counterpart, starting by defusing a bar brawl where a male soldier declared he sure as hell wasn't "eating from some mincing tart's front parlor tea service". When Space Wolves and Dark Angels meet, they usually have a stylised honor duel in memory of their Primarchs not liking each other, followed by Teeth-Clenched Teamwork. This also extends into real life: arguments over which army/race is superior based on canon are EXTREMELY common. It's not uncommon, for example, to see a Blood Angels player berating a Dark Angels one, to the effect of "While we stood against Horus on Terra, you guys were busy blowing up your own planet!"
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Cultural Posturing / int_bdfcd284	comment	In Pharaoh the Egyptian priests look down on everyone: Assyrians are Barbarian Tribe, Greeks are like children with their pretty poems, and don't get them started on the kingdom of Israel.
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Cultural Posturing / int_be3bd6	comment	In Lawrence of Arabia King Faisal says to Lawrence "in the Arab city of Cordoba there were two miles of public lighting when London was a village."
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Cultural Posturing / int_c21df7ae	comment	The End Times: Vermintide and Vermintide II: Kerillian the elf has no end of dialogue about how other races have inferior warriors, weapons, homes, people, medicine, gods, and even swamps. Even her compliments tend to be a bit backhanded. Downplayed by Bardin: though he occasionally comments about the tried-and-true ways of the dwarfs, it's usually meant as friendly banter — extremely good-natured for a dwarf, given that their word for "shoddy" literally means "human-made".
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Cultural Posturing / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor does this by occasionally poking fun at the national pride of other nations since he feels he stands above them all as a Time Lord. In one episode, a Brigadier is discussing Great Britain's responsibility for managing a stockpile of nuclear codes: However, occasionally the Doctor's fondness for the British shines through, such as in "The Empty Child", where he admits to greatly admiring their courage and continued defiance during the Second World War, even against all odds.
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Cultural Posturing / int_cc8fd137	comment	The Last Samurai has this exchange, an incorrect summation of Japanese versus Irish history:
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Cultural Posturing / int_d5b84b32	comment	Spore is actually able to weaponize cultural posturing: in the Civilization stage, Religious vehicles are able to convert an entire city by way of gigantic hologram sermonizing the town into submission, rather than bombing them into oblivion or literally buying them out completely. Once you reach the Space stage, nearly every single hostile NPC message (and about half of the neutral/friendly ones) are peppered with it.
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Cultural Posturing / int_d8548dc8	comment	Red Nightmare: An in-universe example is hilariously a double example on a meta-level. When Jerry sees an exhibit claiming the telephone was invented by the Russians, he yells, "That was made by Alexander Graham Bell! AND HE WAS AN AMERICAN!" Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish, thus a British citizen, while he later became a Canadian and then American too. So it would be equally plausible to call him British or a Canadian.
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Cultural Posturing / int_d8b3ca2a	comment	After Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship Triple H introduced, he started negatively comparing wherever he happened to be to Toronto in Canada. Kevin Steen and Steve Corino likewise negatively compared Dearborn Michigan to Canadian cities. Steen and Corino didn't get much response though, because most of the Ring of Honor Gold Rush audience had driven in from somewhere else and thus didn't feel personally insulted.
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Cultural Posturing / int_db30cf92	comment	Most cats in Warrior Cats believe that their own Clan can do no wrong and that the other Clans are all weaklings or heartless bastards. This often works in ThunderClan's favor, since the majority of the series is from their POV, but the series does occasionally show that the other Clans are similar. For example, the same is done with RiverClan when they become the protagonists in Crookedstar's Promise.
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Cultural Posturing / int_dbeede2c	comment	Shinji Heyerdahl expresses this towards Japanese culture in Pyrrhic denying the fact that he himself is half-Japanese and half-American. In his inner rants, he calls non-Japanese people gaijin, but reserves most of his racial hatred towards Joshua (mostly because he's dating Shinji's sister), calling him jingai. In contrast, Helmut Schuwald cares nothing for Germany, his home country, and instead has adopted America as his new home.
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Cultural Posturing / int_dca06c7f	comment	Dee in Tales of MU gives her less-evolved friends a glowing picture of her subterranean elven culture as a "structured meritocracy" where everyone has a place and all contribute to the common good. Side stories that show what's happening while she's on the surface indicate that she has a very one-sided view of her culture.
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Cultural Posturing / int_dd18fa29	comment	An example from Robert Wingrove's Chung Kuo series: "Three thousand years of unbroken civilization—that was the heritage of the Han. Against that these large-nosed foreigners could claim what? Six centuries of chaos and ill-discipline."
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Cultural Posturing / int_e13d74b1	comment	In Anne of Green Gables, the children perform a musical number that portrays Prince Edward Island, of all places, as "the heart of the world, set in the crossroads of the sea."
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Cultural Posturing / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II, Free Marchers tend to get in on this towards the Ferelden refugees in Kirkwall, displaced by the Blight.
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Cultural Posturing / int_e15c2cdd	comment	Prince Jimuro of the Steel Crow Saga grew up as a Political Hostage of an enemy nation his own was trying to conquer, so he repeatedly touts the superiority of Tomodanese culture to all others, even claiming that the Tomodanese invasion was them bringing order and civilization to the countries they attacked. Once he actually comes back to his home, his idealized version of it quickly falls apart.
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Cultural Posturing / int_e235270c	comment	Communications between hostile empires in Stellaris consist of either threats, species-specific insults, or this, no exceptions. Fallen Empires also like to do it a lot even if they're on good terms with you, with their arguments usually based on their extremely advanced technology. Unfortunately for them, they continue to treat the younger empires like barely sentient upstarts even when the latter have vastly more fleet power than them, which often ends up irritating players enough to decide to teach the oldtimers a humiliating lesson or two.
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Cultural Posturing / int_e3406858	comment	The Iron Sheik would tout the greatness of Iran and Russian while spitting at the utterance of USA.
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Cultural Posturing / int_e68decb8	comment	Star Control II: "Just over twenty thousand years ago — when your ancestors were learning to chart the course of the moon and stars on animal horns — the Sentient Milieu spanned five hundred light-years and included the membership of a hundred worlds." The Arilou like to remind you of their antiquity too, but they do it in a friendlier way.
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Cultural Posturing / int_e694aadb	comment	Ciaphas Cain's early career involved making a mixed-gender regiment out of the remnants of an all-male planetary assault and an all-female garrison regiment where the commanding officer had three days' seniority over her male counterpart, starting by defusing a bar brawl where a male soldier declared he sure as hell wasn't "eating from some mincing tart's front parlor tea service".
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Cultural Posturing / int_e8a94d3d	comment	In Ghost World, a Greek store owner rants about how his people "invented democracy" to an obnoxious customer.
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Cultural Posturing / int_eb5d7301	comment	In Amphibia, Anne tries to buy food from a food stall, only for the vendor to try and dissuade her, doubtful that she can handle its spiciness. Anne proceeds to brag that she can handle any level of spice he can possibly throw at her because she's Thai. She can't.
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Cultural Posturing / int_ec52a5b9	comment	From Transformers (2007) movie: Ironhide asks "Why are we fighting to save the humans, they're a primitive and violent race". This coming from the race of giant robots with weapons built into their bodies who have been engaged in a millennia-long war. Optimus Prime, however, does point out, "Were we so different?"
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Cultural Posturing / int_ed0803a7	comment	In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, a Klingon ambassador claims that Shakespeare's work sounds better "In the Original Klingon".
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Cultural Posturing / int_ef4c300f	comment	Assassin's Creed III has Shaun's commentary in the notes constantly snarking on Americans, their history and government, while extolling the virtues and superiority of the British. Not that the French get let off.
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Cultural Posturing / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: All the tribes see the other tribes, at best, as backwards, and dangerous savages at worst. The Nora refuse to leave their Sacred Land and see all outsiders as cursed by definition. The Carja consider themselves the only true civilization in the world. The Oseram have the highest technology and scoff at everyone else for being frail. The Banuk value self-reliance above all else and sneer at everyone else for living in places where you won't freeze to death in five minutes. The Carja probably get the worst of this; not only are they the primary tribe in the game, but they're in the middle of a civil war (so the Carja in Shadow see themselves as the exiled true owners of the holy city, while the Carja in Sun see the Shadow Carja as a bunch of tyrants and slavers obsessed with Human Sacrifice), and most of the in-universe texts about each tribe are written by one Carjan historian who keeps making assumptions and dismissing facts that don't fit his worldview.
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Cultural Posturing / int_f36a0060	comment	In the mod Tamriel Rebuilt, the player can visit the Imperial Curia in Old Ebornheart, which has a mosaic window depiciting Vivec prostrating himself before a grandstanding Tiber Septim. It is a bit of a... biased take on signing of the Treaty of the Armistice, which in reality was much closer to an amicable agreement between two Worthy Opponents, resulting in the Voluntary Vassalisation of Morrowind, than the ignoble surrender to a victorious conqueror that mosaic would like to imply.
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Cultural Posturing / int_f39c217d	comment	In Aldnoah.Zero, the Emperor and nobles of the Vers Empire on Mars act as if they represent some kind of ancient noble bloodline and regard the Terrans of Earth with disdain. It should be noted, however, that Vers is just an Earth colony that decided to revolt upon finding some ancient technology, the eponymous Aldnoah, in The '80s. While the Aldnoah is a rather decisive advantage, it's literally the only thing Vers has over Earth, as Mars has no natural resources.
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Cultural Posturing / int_f3ef0f86	comment	The fairies regularly boast of their superiority over the "mudmen" (i.e. humans). Artemis Fowl series. Their technology is more advanced, their society is less harmful to the environment, their nature is less violent, etc. Artemis himself didn't bother to humor them as he outsmarted them in the first book, and some of their number can be as ruthless as any human.
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Cultural Posturing / int_f43685a2	comment	Naturally, the Psychlos in Battlefield Earth won't shut up about how much better they are than "man-animals" and mock them at every possible opportunity. Of course, when the "man animals" decide to fight back it's a truly epic fail for the Psychlos.
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Cultural Posturing / int_f61ea51b	comment	Interview with the Vampire (2022): "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...": The Frenchman Lestat de Lioncourt outright calls America a "primitive country." He regards his homeland to be more civilized, cultured and sophisticated because (by European reckoning) it's far older than the New World. The Kingdom of France was founded in the year 987 note although one can go back even further to the establishment of West Francia in 843 as the birth of the French nation, while the USA became an independent country in 1776, plus France was still a colonial power in 1910, whereas America wouldn't attain superpower status until after World War II. "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self": Lestat — who is a great admirer of European classical music and opera — has a mocking facial expression when he tells Florence (an African American) "I see you have a banjo band in your front yard," so he considers banjo music (the banjo was invented by African Americans) to be inferior. "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil": While reading a newspaper article at Jackson Square, Lestat idealizes New Orleans when it was under French rule, but Louis de Pointe du Lac, a black Creole, points out to his boyfriend that France was just as terrible as the United States in terms of how slaves were treated.
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Cultural Posturing / int_f6c05e8e	comment	In Friends, Ross's father claims "We bailed you out in World War Two!" while arguing with his fiancee Emily's parents.
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Cultural Posturing / int_f74b5f80	comment	Commander Susan Ivanova invokes her Russianness repeatedly on Babylon 5. This is usually played for laughs, as Self-Deprecation, showing the lighter side of the workaholic, near-neurotically professional officer (e.g., other characters' comments expressing a depressing worldview are generally met with some form of "that's very Russian"). Her Jewishness (she's a Russian Jew) is rarely mentioned, although it does seem to inspire her spirituality (she often makes asides to a God who seems to have a very late-Old Testament sense of humor, and she is very moved when she sits Shiva for her father) and pepper her language (she says "what am I, chopped flarn?" and "for this, you wake me up?" within five minutes of one another in one episode).
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Cultural Posturing / int_fade5b0f	comment	The Change Room: Shar, who's half-Persian, is very offended to have them and Arabs confused. She's convinced Persians are an advanced, cultured people while Arabs are uncivilized barbarians compared to them.
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Cultural Posturing / int_fb8549c	comment	Parodied in Deadpool Team-Up, after accidental use of a culture swap gun.
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Cultural Posturing / int_fd4c848a	comment	In one episode of I Dream of Jeannie, she criticizes a spaceship design, and when Tony asks her what she knows about it says, "My people were flying carpets when yours were hollowing out log canoes."
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Cultural Posturing / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard enjoys looking down on Q, even quoting Shakespeare to him until Q gets disgusted and left. Q, of course, provokes this intentionally.
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Maccabean Revolt	seeAlso	Cultural Posturing
A Bride's Story (Manga) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto (Manga) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Well There's Your Problem (Podcast) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Goodness Gracious Me (Radio) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
We ARE Struggling Together / Real Life	seeAlso	Cultural Posturing
CDT Dream II (Roleplay) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Discord Plays Stellaris (Roleplay) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Chef! (1993) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Deadliest Warrior / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Interview with the Vampire (2022) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Jersey Shore / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Lost Girl / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Luke Cage (2016) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Muppets Now / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
QI / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Starsky & Hutch / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
The 206 / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
30 Rock / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Treme / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Wonder Woman (1975) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Rifts (Tabletop Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
7th Sea: The East (Tabletop Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Traveller (Tabletop Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Witch Girls Adventures (Tabletop Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Of Thee I Sing (Theatre) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Street Scene (Theatre) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Assassin's Creed III (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Black & White (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Blood Stone (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Civilization (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Marvel: Avengers Academy (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Mount & Blade (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Six Ages (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Tamriel Rebuilt (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Ebon Light (Visual Novel) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Loren: The Amazon Princess (Visual Novel) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Ongezellig (Web Animation) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Forgotten Weapons (Web Video) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
LEMMiNO (Web Video) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Lindybeige (Web Video) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Dominic Deegan (Webcomic) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Suppression (Webcomic) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
The Exodite / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Changeling: The Dreaming (Tabletop Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Sword of the Stars (Video Game) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Charby the Vampirate (Webcomic) / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing

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