[ SECRET POST #1898 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1898 ⌋


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So, racism and colonialism are okay if you're sure that the natives are just "brainwashed" into having their existing culture and religion?

Seriously, maybe you've never had much exposure to actual colonial arguments and literature? I grew up surrounded by children's books about the progress and advances made through the British Empire (that's what happens if most of your books are bought cheap secondhand in the mid-20th century in England), and your perspective on the native Narnians is pretty exactly the point-of-view those stories had of the natives in the Empire.

Lewis is not the one mocking the religion and culture of the native people, while proposing to stamp it out and replace it with his own, all for their own good.

[marshwiggledyke.livejournal.com]

I was being flippant, and pointing out that the system was skewed against Talking Animals from the very start. Aslan trains them to recognise human beings as inevitable leaders. They've only just been formed- how can they possibly argue, or be expected to HAVE their own culture or understanding of religion? Their sentience is literally two minutes old.

Believe me, I grew up around a ton of Imperialist-influenced kid's books myself- most of them being hand-me-downs from my mother. Mocking their Imperialist streak now is just my approach to the whole ridiculous concept.