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⌈ Secret Post #3476 ⌋

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[dethtoll]

Have you actually been to Amish country before? They do regularly interact with a variety of different people, for example when they come into town for something. (I saw a group at the zoo a few years ago, even had a nice conversation with one of them.) But those people DON'T LIVE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.

If you're writing historical fiction about, for example, pre-colonial Africa... if there's white people in it, you're doing it wrong.

Or say there's a story set in Japan, which is 98% Japanese... what are you going to expect to find there? Here's a hint: PROBABLY NOT PUERTO RICANS.

Not every place is multicultural.

Now, when you start talking about fantasy settings, like Dragon Age the Witcher, then you might have a leg to stand on.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes.

Just seems natural to me that if you were writing a story on the Amish community a part of it would have to include how they deal with outsiders.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that's simplifying things a bit. Africa has more genetic and almost as much linguistic diversity as the rest of the world combined. Sure if you're making it all about white people that's doing it wrong (never mind Roman Carthage and Egypt). But Africa absolutely is multicultural and multiethnic in ways that matter, whether you're talking about today or 500 years ago.

Japan was unified in the 16th century and was isolationist for a few hundred centuries. Before then there was significant cultural contact with China and Korea including importing at least four different waves of Buddhism, not all of which were peaceful adoptions.

Any significant multicultural work (such as Okorafor's Lagoon) is going to take into account how those issues are different from place to place rather than inserting "Puerto Ricans" everywhere.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll take "Missing the Fucking Point" for $300, Alex.

[(Anonymous)]

And how are the problems of an endogamous religious, cultural, and linguistic minority not multicultural?