https://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1337263317727866880?s=19

No culture but the culture pushed on you by gigantic companies trying to sell you merch. Superman v Batman is exactly the same as traditions that have been evolving naturally for thousands of years. Buying a Spiderman backpack is equivalent to knocking on wood or leaving a shot of vodka out in the woods for the leshiy. In Ant Man's name, amen.

  • TelestialBeing [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Kazakhstan folk tales are like: Once there was a peasant. He happened to catch a fairy, who gave him three wishes. Because he was a bumfuck stinking hick unable to imagine anything outside of his village, the most awesome thing he could think to wish for was to torment the local Jew, by among other things, making him dance on a thicket of thorns until the Jew gave him all his gold to stop. The wicked Jew then went to a judge to complain, but the judge said he was obviously lying because no Jew would ever give up his gold. He then had the Jew executed for his lies, and he was cast into the lake of fire for all eternity.

    Just kidding, that's actually a German folk tale.

    • kilternkafuffle [any]
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      4 years ago

      I was about to say the Kazakhs stole it from the Grimm brothers - I also read it as one of those Grimm stories they never told you about as a kid. Would be curious to hear about actual Kazakh tales.

      On the subject of Jew-hating folklore, lest the Germans get too singled out... I'm told some of the 1001 (Arabian) Night stories end with a Jewish girl converting to Islam and cutting off her father's head as a show of rejecting her religion.

      There's also a Russian folk tale about a (Christian) soldier walking home asking to sleep over with a Jewish couple, sharing their bed and trying to fuck the wife under the sheet, until she realizes the cock is uncircumcised and screams, and he blames his cock for acting on its own and pleads ignorance. (Though there's a version of the story where no Judaism is mentioned - it's just nondenominationally rapey.)

      • TelestialBeing [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I threw in Kazakhstan since it's indistinguishable from a story Borat would tell. The closest thing I know to a Kazakh folk tale is that according to legend, the first Turk was born to and raised by a wolf. This is why wolves are a Turkic nationalist symbol.