The History of Western Development in One Piece

Beulah 2022-11-11 05:14:54

After the independence of the United States in 1776, because it was uneasy about the existing territory, it planned to expand to the west. The genocide and cultural cleansing of the Indians living in the west, and the horseback culture has since disappeared. This history can be glimpsed from many western films such as "Dancing With Wolves", so there is no need to repeat it.
Leaving Alabasta, saying goodbye to Weiwei, Robin joins the team, and "ワンピース" has since entered the Sky Island chapter. The main line is that the "Legion of God" led by Anilu forcibly occupied the sky island and implemented high-pressure rule. The plot is basically transplanted from the history of the western development of the United States.
At the end of the 15th century, Columbus was supported by the Spanish royal family to set sail and discover the American continent. In "ワンピース", the author made Luffy's soul possessed incarnate as Columbus and entered the empty island as a symbol of the American continent, and with the help of Cervantes's Don Quixote-style character ガン‧フォール, Columbus's voyage was funded by Spain. fact. In the same way: the sky island corresponds to the American continent; the clouds leading to the sky island are like the Atlantic Ocean; the Legion of God and the American army are allied together; シャンディア represents the Indian tribe; The Indians slung their horses on their crotch and carried bows and arrows on their shoulders; and did Enilu's envisioned airborne landing also hint at the American dream of world domination? Confidence and above substitution is not far-fetched.
Occasionally due to overwork, I fell asleep at my desk. In a dream, I saw that the park was blocked without a ticket. After waking up, I thought about entering the sky island at first. Luffy and his gang were charged with high admission tickets and the aunt of the neighborhood committee named アマゾン (Amazon, this basin is located in South America) who laughed so much that "お金がなければ通っていいよ" . Xiao Ding Si Xiao, does this also imply the meaning of "this country has been broken, and there is freedom of entry and exit"? This joke is slightly darker.
The land expansion and economic growth of the United States developed in the west more than 200 years ago is the basis for its rapid rise to become the world's largest economic power after World War II. They would be complacent about their foresight to develop the west, and they would take the slaughter necessary for expansion indifferent, but they lacked the kind of reflection that the Germans had about the blood-slaughtering of the Jews by their predecessors. Oda is also venting his hostility to the United States with the ubiquitous hints in the book.

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  • Monkey D. Luffy: Enough running! Let's fight these Navy guys!

    [trips over a bunch of harpoons the Navy ships fired at them]

    Monkey D. Luffy: Hey, what are these doing here?

    Sanji: Ussopp thought we might be able to use them.

    Monkey D. Luffy: Nah, I'll just throw them overboard.

    [chucks the wooden harpoons over the back of the ship, and hits the pursuing Navy ships]

    Monkey D. Luffy: Now, let's fight these Navy guys!

    [sees the ships full of harpoons]

    Monkey D. Luffy: Oh...

  • Niko Robin: Let put out the fires if we don't need them. We don't want to announce our location to our enemies.

    Monkey D. Luffy: What a rookie move. You hear that Usopp? She want us to put out the fire, what should we do?

    Usopp: I don't know. It's not really her fault, though. She's never been exposed to this kind of living. We should be tolerant.

    Niko Robin: What are you saying?

    Monkey D. Luffy: [both crying] You're always suppose to have a campfire when you camp, that's what makes it *camping*!

    Nami: It's never ending with those idiots. HEY! Lay off the sob stories! You know how dangerous this island is! Let's not give it any help in killing us!

    Monkey D. Luffy: Don't care.

    Nami: We are in the middle of a war between knights protecting their king, and gorillas forging a coup, not to mention the giant, blood-thirst monsters that wait around every corner to eat us!

    Usopp: Sky island scary... sky island scary... sky island scary...

    Roronoa Zoro: [with giant pill of wood] Luffy, take a look! Is this enough wood for your fire?

    Nami: Can you idiots think for one second!

    Sanji: [dozens of eyes appear behind him] Don't worry wild animals are afraid of fire they'll stay away!

    Nami: But they're surrounding us!