It is shared values and shared humanity that make civilization--and the lack of these things, the insistence on an ethnic or sexual identity that none but members of that identity can share is indeed very destructive. Mark Twain understood Huck as well as Jim; many a male writer has created convincing female characters; many a writer has…
It is shared values and shared humanity that make civilization--and the lack of these things, the insistence on an ethnic or sexual identity that none but members of that identity can share is indeed very destructive. Mark Twain understood Huck as well as Jim; many a male writer has created convincing female characters; many a writer has produced a story line peopled with characters from locales and ethnicities not shared by the writer. The willingness to explore other worlds in writing and art is not "cultural appropriation" but it is cultural appreciation and it is empathy.
It is shared values and shared humanity that make civilization--and the lack of these things, the insistence on an ethnic or sexual identity that none but members of that identity can share is indeed very destructive. Mark Twain understood Huck as well as Jim; many a male writer has created convincing female characters; many a writer has produced a story line peopled with characters from locales and ethnicities not shared by the writer. The willingness to explore other worlds in writing and art is not "cultural appropriation" but it is cultural appreciation and it is empathy.