[ SECRET POST #5424 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5424 ⌋

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[meadowphoenix]

actually slavery (the kind which intends for a permanency of slave class, i.e. you can be born into it as well as brought in) is one of those things that leads to homogeneity of culture because usually people's original culture cannot survive it (by design), so it becomes a culture of survival and takes on class aspects of the culture of the enslavers (also by design). this becomes more deliberate if there's a large slave population in comparison with the slaver population because a degree of conformity is needed to ensure the slave class has few means or opportunities to rebel and little variability of identity to be dissatisfied enough to do so. I haven't read enough to understand if that's what's happening on tatooine, but i wouldn't out of hand suggest that it's unlikely.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for articulating this; I couldn't. I've read a few fics that involve slaves on Tatooine having their own culture and don't mind them. I guess the alternatives to having their own culture as slaves would be that each individual slave or maybe family of slaves identifies with the culture they or their ancestors were born into, and not as slaves, or they think of themselves as belonging to the same cultural group as their enslavers, just, idk, the lowest caste/class/whatever of it.

And assuming people are continuously being enslaved and freed, by accruing and paying off debt, and being captured and escaping, there would be a slow churn of both groups going on, which would probably lead over time to slave-specific references, slang, survival mechanisms, maybe even folklore.

And if people are basing their versions of slavery on Tatooine on the prequel films, there's not a whole lot of information to go on. I don't see anything wrong with taking the bare bones of canon and fleshing them out; that's what fanfic is for.

I wonder what kind of fanfic OP would write about slavery on Tatooine or in Star Wars more generally.

[meadowphoenix]

It's hard for me to say, because the prequels suggest that there is clearly a village of slaves, which suggests some unification of culture, and that while you can buy yourself from slavery, it is almost impossible to accrue cash because slavers add to your debt, which suggests a permanent slave class. But yeah, I wouldn't reject unified or diverse tatooine slave cultures out of hand.