From an Oddworldians perspective: What is a human? What happens in history happened because it did. Oddworld is not a representation of another world... How many Soulstorms you drink last night?
From a Real World perspective: Yes. As Lorne and Sherry have said themselves, the Oddworld games are a discrete way that they can get people to understand todays problems. Once you get past the goofy/sadistic outer shell, the Oddworld games are really about serious matters that are occuring on Earth, past, present and future. So yes, I think that Oddworld is closely related to the Real World as far as morality, religion and polotics go.
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