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Just a week or more to Chinese New Year, or rather Babelic’s new year!
I thought of creating a mapping challenge for this festive season: Create a Babelic town (chinatowns) where the Babelic-speaking people in your country can interact.
It must include: *Chinese/ Babelic Restaurants *Chinese temples eg Buddhist, Taoist etc. *Some plazas and shopping malls to serve the Babelic people. Happy mapping and have a blessed new year.
Discussion
Comment from Yuanls on 18 January 2017 at 00:42
Ooh, good idea! I’m not really sure what or where to put this into my mapping though.
Commonian influence was significant in the 1930s and 1940s but after a failed revolution backed by Commonia, Glaster cut all ties. Presumably the Commonian military fled afterwards. So I guess any Babelic influence will be minimal if I followed my current set of events.
Comment from deltanz on 18 January 2017 at 01:17
Well, it makes sense if we think that the “fall of Commonia” displaced thounsands (millions?) ou people with Babelic background to other coutries all around the world. Every major city could have a babelic neighborhood.
Comment from Luciano on 18 January 2017 at 02:57
I would like to just add a very large caveat to this discussion: it is not clear or established that the home of “chinese” (Babelic) culture in OGF world is Commonia. I personally don’t like the idea. I’d rather see some true “China” created someday, somewhere - maybe in the Western Continents.
In fact, when I created Babelic, it was not meant to be Chinese, but rather a “contact culture” like the Vietnamese, Japanese or Koreans, who used the Chinese Characters for writing, but which was linguistically distinct. I have always called Chinese in OGF “Sinian”. I’m happy to let go of this concept, but just so you have some alternate perspective.
새해 복 많이 받으세요 (Happy New Year - in Korea, it’s not called “Chinese New Year”). I think a term like “Lunar New Year” is more neutral and inclusive).
Comment from niels20020 on 19 January 2017 at 18:22
Sounds like a good idea! I really like this project, so I will build a OGF-“Chinatown” in Balonis City. I see there are some problems with the name, so I decided to call mine “Barrio Xiang Wei” (I hope the Chinese translation you see on the map is good). Xiang Wei was a major person in the Chinese/Babelic/Sinian/Commonian (or whatever) community in Balonis. I will start mapping it on Saturday or Sunday.