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Originally Posted by TanabeTakashi
Why does the Knox's 5th is not mentioned? I know it says that 'No Chinaman must figure in the story", but what I wanna know is if 'chinaman' has another meaning apart from 'an asian'. If it doesn't have another meaning, why does Knox create this commandment? Does it have any sense?  |
Knox's 5th is discluded from Umineko most likely because "chinaman" is an incredibly offensive racial slur to Asian people.
Since the Japanese are an Asian race (and Ryukishi is a Japanese fellow obviously), it was probably for the best to remove it.
Just a guess but I think Knox's 5th means no Asian's can take a figurehead role in the story, so Knox's 5th is probably already broken as well since most of the characters in Umineko are from Japanese decent.