{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I was busy beaver building my mental model of BK Kids Club (alt. Captain Planet) 90s multiculturalism, where we were all...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/164821134543/", "html": "<p>I was busy beaver building my mental model of BK Kids Club (alt. Captain Planet) 90s multiculturalism, where we were all conceptually the same, but in varieties like McCormick spice mixes</p><p>c'mon, it made sense at the time, an extension of the whole <a href=\"http://www.powells.com/book/protestant-catholic-jew-9780226327341/61-\" target=\"_blank\">Protestant, Catholic, Jew</a> thing (\u201855!), Eisenhower and the boys (who by the \u201860s grew into The Man) spending real mana to refound us as \u201cAbrahamic\u201d</p><p>let\u2019s set aside the inconvenientness of the &lsquo;70s (and everything that ended up coming out of the '80s intermarriage crisis, maybe)</p><p>But HOW DO I ACCOUNT FOR CAPCOM\u2019S STREET FIGHTER</p><p>by way of Guileful imperial Americanism or ???</p><p>there\u2019s a great '90s pinball table, maybe overambitious with the toys if you don\u2019t have a good tech close, called \u201cChampion Pub\u201d themed Edwardian bare-knuckle boxing, and all the opponents are national caricatures but who\u2019s America? oh it\u2019s Steveo, the gay caricature from SF</p>"}