r/StarWars • u/Time-Comment-141 • 2d ago

General Discussion Would the Clones be considered ethnically Mandalorian, Kaminoan or something else entirely?

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u/jerem200 2d ago

Jango Fett was a human from Concord Dawn. So, they're human. Jango was a Mandalorian, but that's not a race/species.

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u/Doomhammer24 2d ago

Eh being mandalorian is akin to being jewish

Theres ethnically jewish and theres people who converted into judaism. Both are viewed the same (mostly) within the larger culture itself, just as there are those who are ethnically mandalorian vs foundlings or those who took up the creed akin to din djarin

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u/Roi_C Watto 2d ago

Holy shit that's like the best allegory I've seen, that makes everything make perfect sense.

You can even make comparisons to sub-groups that way, like Djarin's Children of the Watch being an Ultra-Orthodx fringe group, or Boba and Jango being secular (possibly atheistic) Jews, etc.

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u/talon1580 2d ago

Jon Favreau is jewish. It's not an accident there's lots of parallels. 

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u/Roi_C Watto 2d ago

I can say that all of the Order 66 scenes, including the music, remind me very strongly of scenes from Holocaust movies as well, without folks like George Lucas or John Williams being Jewish themselves. Art imitiates life, it's all right there waiting for us to be inspired by it.

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u/Doomhammer24 2d ago

I mean the empire is straight up inspired by the nazis

Theres a reason they are called Stormtroopers

And disney took that idea and made it a bit more overt with its imagery in the sequels with the First Order (First Order, Third Reich) to great effect

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u/Icy-Veterinarian-785 1d ago

As much as I dislike the sequels, they nailed the Empire's escalation from an already hateful, tyrannical yet cold government into something of pure extremism, hatred, and palpable vengeance. Domnhall Gleeson, Hux's actor, acted his heart out in the scenes that really concrete how evil the First Order was.

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u/Doomhammer24 1d ago

Ya to at least some degree its the difference between germany in ww1 vs germanys in ww2 in the change in how extreme we are talking

The first order is basically nazi germany if the entirety of nazi germany was made up of the gestapo