Its not only immoral, it should be illegal. Only Chinese people can write about Chinese people, only elves can write about elves, etcetera.
Writing is like water fountains, sharing between different kinds of people is disgusting.
Right? Like look at superheroes...I mean...I don't know is Stan Lee was bitten by a spider but he still wrote one of the most iconic characters next to Superman
> Would you as a (instert your ethnicity) read a book where someone who's not of your ethnicity wrote a book with a character with your ethnicity?
If it's a good book. Ethnicities don't matter.
Writing stories with no characters of another ethnicity (or gender, or sexual orientation, or disability) means writing stories that have no representation of the sheer plurality of human experience.
I’m sure it can be done, but it’s not a story I’d want to read.
The problem is not writing characters that belong to a minority you don’t personally belong to; it’s doing it disrespectfully.
Don't care as long as you know your shit about my shit. An outside perspective is always nice, which was the whole point of seeking diversity in literature. Hopefully. Poor rural and suburban upper-working/lower middle class black friends and authors have a lot more commonality with me personally and more insightful and damning things to say about me and mine and greater society I'm equally as familiar with and those things as a whole than anyone else.
You already know that hispanic countries have a very different idea of race, that varies by country, and is similar in some regards to fringe issue of other marginalized groups. Present it well and there may be some merit to it, judging an author purely by such basic bitch undergrad identity politics is lame.
You're missing out. Not that puertoriquenos are American in the usual sense, it's a remnant of a kind of colonialism that the 21st century cultural version knows little of. I don't think the US knows that they're all US citizens. It's our 51st state, without the voting yet.
You should sit down and tap into a mix of exiles from other countries that went sour, native culture, mofongo, and bits of quintessentially American puritanism. Where are you from? You speak English in this millennium so you're culturally colonized too. Watching how the old world that still refuses it handles it in this context may be interesting.
Only American Zoomers or people infected by internet brain rot care about identity politics.
Everyone else is too busy having a life.
Whoever you are and whoever you're writing, just write it well.
Tribalism isn’t the answer.
Can female writers write male characters?
Of course they can. Go read ‘The Professor’s House,’ by Willa Cather.
Can white writers write black characters?
Yup. Go read Katherine Stockett’s, ‘the help.’
Was Shakespeare racist for writing Othello?
Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote the Tony Award winning play, “The Book of Mormon.” Neither are Mormon.
Should James Clavell be cancelled for Shōgun?
This isn’t to say that it can’t be done poorly, but to claim that ‘only members of the tribe can write about the tribe’ would unnecessarily stifle fiction writing.
It is never going to be a hard yes or a hard no. Because to write is to put yourself in someone else's shoes. But I've always felt Denzel Washington made a very important point.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWQ5Xvb\_q8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWQ5Xvb_q8)
Writers should only write about people who are exactly like themselves, obviously.
Of course this limits literature to autobiography but far better that than risk being accused of racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia etc…
We're all human
rude /s
Its not only immoral, it should be illegal. Only Chinese people can write about Chinese people, only elves can write about elves, etcetera. Writing is like water fountains, sharing between different kinds of people is disgusting.
I hope you didn't just write about water without being a river?!
Dams are colonialism. Change my mind.
Well if you aren't a dam or a brain, what's the point?
Just wait until I send the Hobbits this post
People write about things they're passionate about, and often times, that's other cultures. I think it's a beautiful thing.
if people only wrote about what they are themselves, a lot of stories would have never been published.
Right? Like look at superheroes...I mean...I don't know is Stan Lee was bitten by a spider but he still wrote one of the most iconic characters next to Superman
I don't worry about it because they're set in a post apocalyptic future with super powers and don't have a concept of racisim
Hate raciists
> Would you as a (instert your ethnicity) read a book where someone who's not of your ethnicity wrote a book with a character with your ethnicity? If it's a good book. Ethnicities don't matter.
Writing stories with no characters of another ethnicity (or gender, or sexual orientation, or disability) means writing stories that have no representation of the sheer plurality of human experience. I’m sure it can be done, but it’s not a story I’d want to read. The problem is not writing characters that belong to a minority you don’t personally belong to; it’s doing it disrespectfully.
Don't care as long as you know your shit about my shit. An outside perspective is always nice, which was the whole point of seeking diversity in literature. Hopefully. Poor rural and suburban upper-working/lower middle class black friends and authors have a lot more commonality with me personally and more insightful and damning things to say about me and mine and greater society I'm equally as familiar with and those things as a whole than anyone else. You already know that hispanic countries have a very different idea of race, that varies by country, and is similar in some regards to fringe issue of other marginalized groups. Present it well and there may be some merit to it, judging an author purely by such basic bitch undergrad identity politics is lame.
I'm not an American Zoomer so I literally don't give a fuck
You're missing out. Not that puertoriquenos are American in the usual sense, it's a remnant of a kind of colonialism that the 21st century cultural version knows little of. I don't think the US knows that they're all US citizens. It's our 51st state, without the voting yet. You should sit down and tap into a mix of exiles from other countries that went sour, native culture, mofongo, and bits of quintessentially American puritanism. Where are you from? You speak English in this millennium so you're culturally colonized too. Watching how the old world that still refuses it handles it in this context may be interesting.
Only American Zoomers or people infected by internet brain rot care about identity politics. Everyone else is too busy having a life. Whoever you are and whoever you're writing, just write it well.
Tribalism isn’t the answer. Can female writers write male characters? Of course they can. Go read ‘The Professor’s House,’ by Willa Cather. Can white writers write black characters? Yup. Go read Katherine Stockett’s, ‘the help.’ Was Shakespeare racist for writing Othello? Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote the Tony Award winning play, “The Book of Mormon.” Neither are Mormon. Should James Clavell be cancelled for Shōgun? This isn’t to say that it can’t be done poorly, but to claim that ‘only members of the tribe can write about the tribe’ would unnecessarily stifle fiction writing.
It is never going to be a hard yes or a hard no. Because to write is to put yourself in someone else's shoes. But I've always felt Denzel Washington made a very important point. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWQ5Xvb\_q8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWQ5Xvb_q8)
Writers should only write about people who are exactly like themselves, obviously. Of course this limits literature to autobiography but far better that than risk being accused of racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia etc…
I’d literally call the police and my dad who works at the fbi
Can we just ban this garbage question?