>>90626735Its absolutely fine for a character from one culture to be empowered by the skills and abilities of another so long as their is reason for it to happen beyond plot contrivance (just happened to be there and was better at it than people from that culture).
Like, completely fine. You just have to acknowledge the culture and make it part of the story, and not have the super special westerner be the best at it.
In the case of Danny/Iron Fist it shouldnt even be there because he SHOULD BE for all intents a purposes a Kun Lun citizen culturally after spending his entire teenage and adult life there. Like English should be his second language and he should be getting FIERCE culture shock by the time he gets back to New York as a Dragon Heartpuncher. Which should totally be the name of his legacy character if he gets one.
But Marvel does not do this because the character CANT be like that because as it was origionally it was meant to fit into a very strict archetype of "relateable western everyman gets magic foreigner powers and is better at it than those who created it " (which can be seen a lot in early comics and is at least pretty racist, though obviously the character has developed since then) and if they did it now both fans and people who call themselves SJWs to feel like they can have something righteous to be angry about without any thinking would freak out over it.
So if they put a little critical analysis into the damn thing, like have someone talk about how wierd it is that K'un L'un, in the Kun Lun mountains, gets its amulets of power from the K'un L'un dimension, it would be like having a hidden society in the Rocky Mountains who get their powers from Magic Medalions from the R'ocky M'ountain dimension. Or even just WHY Danny is better at Kung Fu despite not being trained from birth, or more suitable a candidate for dragon heart punching than those who grew up in K'un L'un culture.
