Demonskid wrote:I find changing the names of characters extremely rude and insulting to the people who created it and to the people consuming it. Maybe even racist too if one thinks about it.

Names have meanings to them. And those meaning are derived from that person's culture. When stripped of that culture and name meanings .. it's like saying 'your culture is stupid and doesn't matter, your in america now, use american names"

Thats no different than someone saying, "your in america, speak english!" to someone who hasn't learned the language, or speaks it in a very thick accent.

It's worse when you know that america did this to actual people immigrating to america. "Your name is too hard to pronounce and spell so your bob from now on" They were stripped of their cultural identities to make things easier for the authorities. =3=


It's also pretty much calling the people of america 'too stupid to learn to pronounce something" =3=


It's also worse when you hear that the Japanese actually were led to believe for the longest time that if the characters names weren't changed to easier sounding names. And if the places in the series weren't changed to some place in america or canada, the show wouldn't be received well here in the states.

The internet expanded, fan sub fans raged at the localizations and eventually it stopped.. well some content still gets localized.. from time to time. I think Pokemon still goes through name changes.