Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140803191129/@comment-226878-20140929190028

I've always seen Journey to the West's characters as being from different countries. Naturally, their design is colored from the point of view of the Chinese, but just because Pigsy and Sandy were once of the Jade Emperor's court, doesn't automatically mean they were Chinese. Again, that's just more Chinese coloration. Or perhaps it is that because they were banished and transformed, their new abomination-like forms are actually a metaphor for how the Chinese viewed the outside world.