[ SECRET POST #1293 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1293 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I should have added that I write speculative fiction and the world I'm building does not have the same problems as this world does. My Bob has dark skin because he comes from south. No one in that world is prejudiced against him being black. So the color is not that important. He just happens, yes happens, to have dark skin.

Why should I let that character's skin color dictate his personality when it's not important?

And even if I wrote contemporary fiction, the skin color issue is not the same everywhere in the world.

I wish more people realized it. But then, they do, just not on livejournal.

[(Anonymous)]

That's fine. But Bob still most likely comes from a culture that is different and that still needs to be kept in mind when writing him. It needs to especially be kept in mind when writing speculative fiction, because in speculative fiction, you also create the baseline culture.

I also write speculative fiction. That does not excuse me from writing a character from a different culture consistently, even if that culture is not entirely analogous to our own. Bob might look different from the people he's currently around. Being from the South means that he's not going to have the same outlook on things if he moves to a different part of the country. All of these things still affect his personality. Even if there was no slavery in your fictional world, it is likely that Bob's roots are from a different continent, and that means things will still be different for him in some respect.

[(Anonymous)]

But skin color =/= culture. Culture = culture and skin color = skin color.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, yeah. My point is that when people say that black people aren't just black, they are discussing the culture around being black.

[(Anonymous)]

You know... I think culture nowadays, and particularly in the US, is more about class than skin tone, if only by a small percentage. Granted yes, the people react around you does change based on your skin tone, but I think how one dresses influences those reactions even more. At least, this has been my experience.