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Bumping because it was about to slip off the first page. My dislike of the possibility of going along with the deletion isn't as bad as it was a couple days ago, so I may end up doing that.
(This topic basically exists because my "actually, that person may have been right to delete this" thoughts usually kick in within half an hour tops, so I tend to assume I will never figure things out on my own if the tempation to reverse the change is still there after several hours)
Edited by NazetrimeBut is it really about values? This seems to be entirely about knowledge. The characters aren't expressing any xenophobia, they just don't know about other countries.
I understand wanting to preempt the feeling that it's parochial, but I don't think Deliberate Values Dissonance is the trope for it. Nor do I think that paragraph would be any good for defusing such sentiments, it just makes new readers think "why was the story set up to justify ignorance of China?"
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.Thanks for the feedback. I think my logic boiled down to the idea that the values of a society include what it considers important to teach its children, which has conesquences when they become adults. In a time where distant places are in fairly easy contact with each other, knowledge about other places is considered important. Not so much when travel is so restricted only a few people actually do it. I otherwise happen to have gotten glimpses of corners of the Internet in which people seem to have trouble making a distinction between completely innocent ignorance about a given group and active bigotry against it.
Off to doing the deletion!

The Deliberate Values Dissonance for Stand Still, Stay Silent underwent a few changes recently. One of them is that someone deleted the following entry:
Part of the premise of the work is that a handful of countries have been isolated from the rest of the world for ninety years, so I see how the entry may seem redundant.
However when it comes to the work's interaction with the Internet, "hey, what about the other countries in the world?" has, at least historically, been a recurring angle of Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch. The one time it got true Internet Backdraft (a few months before I found out it existed), it was due to a Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle, itself part of a gag that relied on some of the characters being very ignorant about China. This was spite of the fact that the average person in-universe would have absolutely no reason to know anything about China unless it was part of their job or a personal interest.
Because of this, I, at least personally, get the feeling that the isolated situation of the main contries and what it means for the average person's education in-universe still needs to be spelled out somewhere on the work's page and that Deliberate Values Dissonance is a good place to mention it.
While the entry on the main Stand Still, Stay Silent page is gone, its equivalent on the Deliberate Values Dissonance page was still there last time I checked.
My question for group wisdom is: should I keep the entry out of both pages, restore it on the main Stand Still, Stay Silent as is, or change it in some way on both pages?
Edited by Nazetrime