Wow. I just started reading about this whole Genshin Impact controversy. If the developers did create the world to reflect real cultures, they certainly walked into that one. It looks completely like an anime fantasy world so I'm not sure where the cultural appropriation is coming from maybe except for the names. You know how much stuff out there would have to be changed or not used at all because a name sounded like or was borrowed from another culture? It ain't no one way street either. I recall something on the news that happened where some Asian was accused by some professional athlete of cultural appropriation and then the Asian quickly quipped telling the athlete to remove his tattoos of Asian characters off his body.
