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0:00 Intro
1:04 Arabic Wisdom
2:57 Eremites and Bedouin Arabs
5:53 Arab Design
6:34 Arab Foods
7:41 Nilou’s Persian Design and Dance
8:44 Sabzeruz and Nowruz
9:42 Other Persian Characters
10:15 Persian Aesthetics and Architecture
10:45 Persian Food
11:25 Outro
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Thank you so much for this video! As an Iranian, I’m really happy that the Persian-inspired part of Sumeru’s lore is finally being talked about. Everything was very accurate and well-researched. Amazing job!
as an amazigh, it'd be important to let you know that Tighnari is fully based on Amazigh culture!!
He is a fennec fox which is an animal known for living in amazigh countries (Algeria's national animal too)
He is wearing a Berber belt, a cultural amazigh clothing.
Tighnari means Fox in Tamazight!
He has the color palette of the Maghrebs flags!
Oh, another note: Tabouna bread is actually Tunisian! It is still an important part of our culture, and as a Tunisian most older houses still come with a Tabuna oven!
this is really cool! thank you for sharing this information, can't wait for the other videos <3
did you know that dehya is actually based on a real life indigenous warrior called dihya? she was a fierce warrior who prevented the islamic conquests of her land. there is a really good article done on her life in wikiislam, a website run by exmuslims
Cant wait for your project! Sumeru having soo large inspiration seems like u need 3 parts hahaha. Btw I wonder if u gonna add more part 2 as well for past region. For example, manchuria and mongolia inspiration for liyue, scandavian for mondstard and ainu culture for inazuma
Oooo im surprise the algorithm showed me this video 👀 its nice learning about other parts of the world
Lovely video! Very happy that I got to see it on my recommendations💖
the dish in 6:38 is actually koshary an egyptian dish since it has macaroni noodles and chickpeas and fried onion ontop not really maglouba
africa connection to sumeru is mainly egypt civ?
is this calm zy0x? 😳
This is such a well-made video! I’m so surprised it has less than a thousand views… Hope your channel blows up!
As an arabic person i was afraid how they gonna present our culture but i think they did good
dheya is amazigh
Thank you! As an Arab, I was so excited for Sumeru and they did good! I already knew that it wouldn't be only Arabs but they did a good amount. Sumeru is my favourite region now 🙂 btw, not all arabs are tan
I feel like the Eremites may in part have been shaped by the Elamites, who were an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq. A further conection is the fact that Elam was also located north of the Strait of Hormuz and the Kingdom of Ormus.
Your production quality in these videos are really good!
this kind of videos are a joy to watch, its nice to see how deep the cultural elements are intertwined into the world of teyvat
i'm so happy that your video was recommended to me! thank you for so nicely (and pretty accurately) showing the cultural inspirations of Sumeru!!
although i just gotta add, the Aaru mixed rice dish that you showed in 6:38 is actually koshary, an Egyptian dish (the national dish of Egypt lol) not Maqlouba. there's clearly macaroni, hummus, and a red sauce which are all commonly found in koshary. and it makes a bit of sense since the desert part of Sumeru is based on ancient Egypt 😛
I love you for using that flag for Iran in your thumbnail 🙂
Absolutely love this, since you don't usually see videos like these explaining the cultural references in the game. Looking forward to more videos from you.
i'd like to point out that "dar al shifa" means "house of healing".
also tighnari
like alhaithamis an actual arabian scientist (الطغنري) who was a doctor as well as a Botanist (which matches with his in game character)also layla's scroll title in her idle animations is a VERY famous book in arabic philosophy called (الحركات السماوية وجوامع النجوم) which translates to (the heavenly movements and the sum of the stars).
additionally alot of the npc names are arabic names.
the sumeru music also uses alot of famous arabic musical instruments (oud, tabla, etc..)
oh also aru mixed rice is an egyptian dish called (shokari)
very tiny spoilers for alhaitham gameplay proceed at your own risk.
as you said alhaitham is inspired by the real alhaitham who (also as you said) is the optics father and in alhaitham gameplay he has a mirror mechanics which reflects that.
Darling you've outdone yourself. You've made us middle easterns proud with this video but damn my hands hurt from clapping so much. The quality is chefs kiss x.
Its amazing to see the entusiasm that mihoyo puts into exploring new cultures, even concidering their chinese origin!
Spectacular analysis as always Rom! I can see you improving a lot and let’s go we’re halfway to 1000~ ^^
Sumeru is so vast with all different kinds of culture in it! When it comes to lore, there is also inspiration from south asian culture as there are a lot of features of buddhism and hinduism ! and “kusanali” is of indian (sanskrit) origin and is derived from the pali words “kusa” (grass) and “nali” (a hollow stalk or tube) and theres also some indian food such as butter chicken. Many of the aranara names are also of sanskrit origin. When it comes to the Desert, it seems to be mainly inspired by Egypt and cyno is a literal anubis 🙂 they did an amazing job with sumeru
Please do more video on the other culture this very informative
love what you are doing! Keep going
Why don’t you talk about how fucked up the representation for Bedouin and swana culture in general was I think you should watch (reel bad arabs) documentary to know how fucked up genshin was I’m Bedouin and I left the game from how offensive it was
Your channel is a gem, omw to binge watch all your vids, brb
it's mainly indian to be honnest
This is such a nice video !! as an Arab I am happy with what genshin did to represent our culture and your video explore it so well ! most of the time Arabs are shown as bad peopleterrorist which is really sad and not true I am so happy with your video and how you represented us 🙂
thank you for this!!! i'm really looking forward to the india one!
Wassup ryo
I'd call that effort well spent it was a great and very informative video, I learned quite a lot of new things from it
Keep up your good work Rom
You did an awesome job
thank you for using the actual flag of Iran. not this new bullshit dictatorship crab one 😭
There is also a dish in Sumeru called Candied Ajilenakh Nut, which was most likely an inspiration from “Gaz (گز)”, a Persian sweet 😀
amazing~ sumeru has become my favourite region, and learning more about the cultures behind it really makes me feel more connected. hoyo really did their research to make it such a special region. subscribed for your future vids!
Eremites seem to be combination of bedouins and amazigh ppl (not berber, amazigh) overall nice deep dive video.
Also I can’t get past how you snuck in the isreali flag when talking about levantine bedouins lmao💀, should have really put the Palestinian flag since they’re the indigenous ppl to the land, this the bedouins there would be Palestinian ones
2:18 That's actually inaccurate, the first hospitals were actually built by benedictine monks in 6th century medieval europe
Thank you for this! I’ve been loving these videos talking about cultural inspiration in Genshin!
I'm so glad that you're actually paying attention to these cultures!
Oh wow! Incredible