• AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Nitpick: it’s absolutely correct to capitalise Mandalorian as it’s a territory/culture with a proper noun.

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        9 days ago

        At the moment, if you’re talking about Earth as a territory, it gets capitalised as a proper noun. It’s not got a universal culture that everyone from Earth participates in, so there’s not a proper noun to identify that culture.

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      10 days ago

      Read the post again. Why do we conceptualise these aliens as a culture, rather than a species? Why did we name them after their planet?

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        10 days ago

        Read the post again, they don’t know Mandalorian is a culture and not a species, they list them among species , before talking about culture. Nitpick posts have to have their facts straight, lest they be nitpicked themselves.

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          9 days ago

          Mandalorians, like Sith, were originally a species before the term included a broader inclusive culture but otherwise sure.

          Agreed that nitpickers should get their facts straight.

          Beyond that, I think one of the best things the EU did was build up all these background details to give the Star Wars galaxy this immense history that stretches back so far people barely even remember these things, so of course Disney got rid of all that shit and started name dropping things like the specifically forgotten Rakatans.