[ SECRET POST #2238 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2238 ⌋

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Comments

[corellianrogue]

While this is true of many European countries, we sadly lack much education in literature from places other than North America and Europe. It wasn't until I was in college that I was exposed to certain Indian or Chinese classics (even though I still can't spell them, I'm sorry.)

So if the anon were from, say, China, and reading Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West instead of Crime and Punishment and Lord of the Flies, but then were judged because they hadn't read the latter books, I think is what they're getting at.

...There's something wrong with that sentence, but my brain refuses to let me fix it. I apologize to anyone who reads it. Basically, Classical Literature as most of the West defines it really is the 'Dead White Guys Club' so to speak. Not that it makes them bad books, but I see where the anon was coming from.

[elephantinegrace]

Oh my goddess, Journey to the West...so many memories. Most of them involve falling out of a tree trying to act out scenes from it with my classmates. -facepalm-

[corellianrogue]

Bwaha, that's awesome. I only read it maybe a couple years ago, but I was doing it while working a soul-sucking job, so it took me FOREVER to get through.

My classmates and I usually just injured ourselves trying to act out Disney movies. XD

[chardmonster]

Hey the Harlem Renaissance happened and it's in most school curriculums now.

[corellianrogue]

Very good point. Not that it was included in MY school curriculum, but I'm from the middle of nowhere, USA, so that's not exactly surprising. We had two Lit classes - British and American, and the American one was basically all Hemingway and Steinbeck.

I tend to forget that larger schools actually manage well-rounded educations.

[(Anonymous)]

and on the opposite side is schools like mine being forced to read and think about all these old 'classics' from the Dead White Guys Club and wonder what our culture and stories were like in the same time period.
But apparently the stories of our culture are not big enough classics to analyse

So we're stuck slodging out way through Animal Farm, Pride and Prejudice and To Kill a Mockingbird and asked to interpret it and we could get the main gist but we don't know the history of that countries and it was so frustratingly tedious trying to draw the parallels with another countries history and those books.

It pisses me off so much. So when I think of classics I tend to think of those and can't bring myself to give a shit. It's associated with all the resentment and boredom and frustration I remember

and as an adult it also frustrates me because it's representative of the..westernisation of our countries and how white countries culture can sometimes be prioritised over our own culture and it makes me so angry that we're losing our history and identity to that in our history and english classes.

[elephantinegrace]

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is never get involved in a land war with Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never claim that Western classics are short when War and Peace is roughly the size and weight of a baby hippopotamus!

(If you've never seen The Princess Bride, I'm going to feel really, really stupid.)

relmneiko, too lazy to log in

[(Anonymous)]

...I have seen it, but it was a very long time ago. I wish I got that joke. XP