Only insofar as most marketing hinges on aiming for the lowest common denominator - i.e. people who won't buy a game because 'Murica. They can trust you to hope for something more nuanced while they sell the game to people who don't know what that word means.
No, because nothing about it is a science fail. He just has some problematic beliefs about God.
Interestingly, I also think this article is unfair to Mourdock who, yes, is absolutely an insensitive idiot, but isn't actually betraying a lack of knowledge of how a baby is conceived. His problem is more theological than scientific.
Okay, fine then, this: http://kotaku.com/5949062/heres-the-stuff-from-the-new-assassins-creed-iii-trailer-that-ubisoft-doesnt-want-americans-to-see
"Ubisoft claims that Connor will be fighting both the Colonials and the British, but *every trailer they've shown in the US* has suggested otherwise."
"You're making the mistake of thinking that the entire direction taken with the Prequels wasn't wrong."
It's an adjective meant to invoke the exotic image it literally describes - "Mandarin" was an adjective describing someone of influence (not always actually an official) in the same way that "Turk" meant someone who was brutish or sinful, or how to "turn Jew" was to gyp someone ('gyp' is also a term based in…
"And having adopted it into English, Mandarin is literally a job title that refers the exact same role - and the same word is used no matter what the race of the holder."
I actually don't think that's the case - I think the Jedi just kept thinking they could help him/believed he was the Chosen One so he wouldn't fall/needed to keep him around because he was actually usually pretty good at his job and was apparently wildly powerful.
Yep.
Agreed. Holy shit.
I think that second situation would have worked better, but I'm not sure his fall doesn't exactly make sense.
Still race-specific, at the root.
..."stem from." The Dictionary.com definitions provided seem to align directly with the origin of the word "Mandarin" to refer to Chinese officials, as outlined in the Online Etymology Dictionary:
Interesting. Do you happen to know where they do, then?
That being said, I'm almost certain those uses of the word stem from racial stereotypes.
Burlesque dancers do the same thing.
Yeah, it's all teeth and head - what does it need arms for?
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