Recalling the splendor of the "One Piece" Sky Island chapter, in addition to the fairy tale of "Jack and the Pea Vine", it can also remind people of many real events: Marco Polo's Travels describes the ancient country of the East as full of gold, which makes Westerners yearn for ; Columbus discovered the New World of America, mistaken it for Eastern China, and opened the nearly 400-year history of Western colonization of the Americas (the end of the 15th century to the 19th century); Christian massacres of Indians during this period; San Francisco Gold Rush; Indians and Mayan civilization may be Originated from Yin Shang in China.
Sky Islanders Monochromatic American cultural symbols: the white beret (a replica of the U.S. Army Special Forces green beret), the cultural symbols of God and Christianity. The ancient city of Golden Town, Gaya, was regarded as a new world by the Sky Islanders as soon as it ascended to the sky, and then it was occupied by Christians slaughtering Indians.
[Classic and Modern]
The old god Gang Cole brought the classical chivalry of the Western aristocrats in an attempt to reconcile the contradictions between the Sky Islanders and the aborigines of Gaia. Like the founding father of the United States, he embraced the ideal of modern civilization of equality and freedom, but he is a classical figure.
The interesting part of the story is that an ancient Indian Buddhist-like Anilu usurped power and declared himself a god. The cultural symbols and spirits of Buddhism and Christianity became chaotic. There were sanctions similar to the Bible and the Old Testament, and Buddhism trials in. But in the end, due to Anilu's arrogance and loss, the spiritual connotation of the two religious beliefs of the air island culture collapsed and became more than a fascist reign of terror. At the critical moment, the master highway appeared and rang the bell of freedom and dreams, but the bell of this new era and new culture was tolled by the most classical bell.
Such rich and tense cultural symbols and the in-depth thinking that integrates the ancient and the modern has become another moving highlight of this story.
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