\n\njust reminded how \u201990s Sid Meier\u2019s Alpha Centauri was
the environmentalist faction leader was Lady Deirdre Skye
That \u201880s-‘90s vague post-Stevie Nicks VH1 romance novel Celtic chick vibe. Probably had something to do with where Actual Ireland was at in America\u2019s mind.
The names Moira, Killishandra, Ione, maybe even Naomi but then that broke too big.
Enya! Who was like the other (than U2) big Irish 80s act (she doesn\u2019t tour tho)
Loreena McKennitt!
(who got by for a bit as CanCon)
realizing that this was kind of where investment we had in the figure of the gypsy migrated to
\u2026but then again, that was kind of what the figure of the middle eastern girl had been - veiled belly dancer, harem girl, I Dream of Jeannie?
And looking back I kind of see that vibe in late-aristocratic Western European representations of like, the Bohemian peasant girl or something
“The newly peripheral hottie”? Authentic\u2026 but accessible. But that’s not at all the idiom America used when it was folding Asian girls into the sexual imaginary in the 90s
The funny thing about that was it wasn’t cultural appropriation, to the point it was fetishizing and stereotyping them it was like as the sex workers encountered by the 20th century American imperium \u2013 the Hong Kong hostess with the showy dress, the Bangkok whore, the 80s Japanese AV star
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