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Just curious. One Piece fandom is really large. Across culture, religion, politics, and nationality.
A lot of peoples in the world have hearts of stone and not hearts of flesh. This is deeply connected to their civilization (religion and culture). Significative changes in people mindset take ~200 years and it requires a continuing national will. One Piece can do nothing about it. There is also the fact that peoples have different experiences as nations hence they did not see one event the same way with their own history.One Piece challenge by world view by extension. It does shape how I view friendship in general and what not. But through my interaction with the One Piece fandom, I learned a lot. That people actually doesn't share the same values. When a work is super popular and enjoy by people from all walks of life. They may enjoy the work in different way. Like the reasons I enjoyed Game of Thrones is very different than how majority enjoyed Game of Thrones.
But it changed my entire world view during the Charlie Hebdo and Paris Terrorist Attack. I was on a forum with a large membership who are ethnically from the Middle East. iI do wonder at time, if Arabasta was the reason why One Piece had a large Middle East fanbase. Arabasta anime started before or around the Afghanistan War. The interesting thing is that most of them living in the west. I thought at the time. Young people, living in the west, enjoying the same hobbies, and in particular since One Piece is huge in all of our lives. I thought we had some fundamentally basic values. We did not.
Well the Charlie Hebdo thread in particular on that forum and read the reaction from some of these members. Members who debating over One Piece facts or power level, etc. It was astonishing to me. It broke my simple world view about exposure through culture, or education could change people, etc. My world view was very naive then.
Of all the things that shaped my world views so strongly, were reading fellow One Piece fans reacting to Charlie Hebdo. We all have our bias, and what ticked us.
That's an interesting take! Glad that OP has had such an impact on you. Seems like more than the contents of the story itself, OP has gotten you to have conversations with people you normally might not have and as a result exposed you to other world views.One Piece challenge by world view by extension. It does shape how I view friendship in general and what not. But through my interaction with the One Piece fandom, I learned a lot. That people actually doesn't share the same values. When a work is super popular and enjoy by people from all walks of life. They may enjoy the work in different way. Like the reasons I enjoyed Game of Thrones is very different than how majority enjoyed Game of Thrones.
But it changed my entire world view during the Charlie Hebdo and Paris Terrorist Attack. I was on a forum with a large membership who are ethnically from the Middle East. iI do wonder at time, if Arabasta was the reason why One Piece had a large Middle East fanbase. Arabasta anime started before or around the Afghanistan War. The interesting thing is that most of them living in the west. I thought at the time. Young people, living in the west, enjoying the same hobbies, and in particular since One Piece is huge in all of our lives. I thought we had some fundamentally basic values. We did not.
Well the Charlie Hebdo thread in particular on that forum and read the reaction from some of these members. Members who debating over One Piece facts or power level, etc. It was astonishing to me. It broke my simple world view about exposure through culture, or education could change people, etc. My world view was very naive then.
Of all the things that shaped my world views so strongly, were reading fellow One Piece fans reacting to Charlie Hebdo. We all have our bias, and what ticked us.
This is pretty much it for me too. One Piece has been a consistent part of my life so it has been one of those things in life that is consistently there for me to escape to. It hasn't itself changed anything about how I view the world but it is a source of comfort and joy. This is one of the reasons I dread its end. Like Naruto ending was a big hit for a similar reason.Has One Piece ever changed my world view? No. I've been reading since 2008ish I think clicked a random chapter by accident and it turned out to be the Luffy vs Rob fight and I just couldn't stop reading it.
One Piece was never really philosophical or anything like that like other manga. But it has helped me threw the darkest of times (my family, some really bad breakups, depression,joblessness, a certain pandemic to name a few) in my life even if it was just a quick breather and for that it I will always be thankful to Oda and to this community.
I feel personality attackedIf One Piece was the reason anyone developed a sense of morality, it shows there is a deficit in said person's environment'
It's not like those are mutually exclusive things. I think art can challenge world views and offer perspective. And the more pop culture entertainment still qualifies as art. Besides, it's not like people can also influence with bad views or pass on toxic knowledge and bad habits.One Piece should not be a reason for anyone's world view to change. That would be quite terrible.
It means that person is either not reading enough or paying attention to the world around them, or conversing with people who have good insights or knowledge to pass on.
Entertainment can also be meaningful and educative.One Piece shouldn't be anything other than entertainment.
As said, I don't think anyone is talking about a vacuum here. I think that series and stories that support these values that might have also been presented elsewhere, do exactly that. Representation of the values and idea in pop culture make them seem more universal and thus they might sink in better.If One Piece was the reason anyone developed a sense of morality, it shows there is a deficit in said person's environment'
However, if one lived in a dictatorship where such values were NEVER expressed, and One Piece is the only thing to highlight such values... then that would be the only context in which One Piece should influence one's world view. It would be quite worrisome to say the least for a Manga to play the role of what friends, family, school, mentors and society for the most part should instil in an individual.
But aren't self-confidence, inspiration and motivation factors in world view and general attitude towards life?The only world view (which it isn't) that One Piece or any form of entertainment should give to someone is self-belief, inspiration and motivation, but that's more of a personal thing than a world view.
That is not a world view, a world view is surely something like politics which One Piece is pretty much based on, politics, inequality, racism, morality, etc.But aren't self-confidence, inspiration and motivation factors in world view and general attitude towards life?
Yes, it can be insightful in artistic sense, but if it's the MAIN source of your world view? There's something wrong with said person's surroundings.Entertainment can also be meaningful and educative.
I'm not talking about art, sure, can get x y z from art.It's not like those are mutually exclusive things. I think art can challenge world views and offer perspective. And the more pop culture entertainment still qualifies as art. Besides, it's not like people can also influence with bad views or pass on toxic knowledge and bad habits.
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If there's something wrong in society, it's not necessarily that person's fault for how they view the world. And fair, there are countries and places where things are really bad. In that sense, it is great One Piece helped.I feel personality attacked
We can't help what environment we come from. Not attacking you, just saying the problem that comes with Manga being the reason someone has a world view.If One Piece was the reason anyone developed a sense of morality, it shows there is a deficit in said person's environment'
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But Oda is a person, too. He is clearly including certain topics in his story for a reason. In fact most arcs tackle themes from an aesthetic perspective. Take Syrup village for example, which has a theme about liars, you have Kuro, Jango and Sham as bad liars and Usopp the good one, there is a clear distinction between what kind of lie is what and I don't know, I watched this when i was seven...Parents, experiences, mentors, teachers and education should be what aid to shape our world view, not Kaido.
I find it pretty weird that you claim it does or should. Not everyone will have their worldview challenged, and some people will be rocked if/when they connect OP to real life.I honestly find it pretty weird how everyone claims it didn't.