Importance of the Setting
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Re: Importance of the Setting
Native Americans had their homes, land, and heritage taken from them when the British colonized the North American coast, and even earlier when Columbus virtually (and literally) raped the people, culture, and land of South America and the islands in the Gulf of Mexico. And all the while, history, as written by the victors, glorifies men like Columbus and John Smith, while ignoring the stories of the victims of European colonization.
I think this story would survive if it were brought to America, due to the unfortunate kinship that exists between the Aboriginal and Native American communities--the sense of diaspora and the disconnect with the world around them, which used to be theirs.
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There are many girls today in America and around the world who have memorial sites of their unhappy childhood. In other words, the social settings are not sociologically different in terms of human feelings and emotions.
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There are so many varied cultures and ethnic differences of people all the world but based on the setting, the level of acceptance and comfort , patterns someone's behaviour or their actions.
When you are home....you have a higher comfort level and you can act and be yourself more than if you are in a country or a place where you can be subjected to more scrutiny and judgment. (Not that you would not be judged in your home setting...the extent may be less severe).
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Agreed.JLS wrote: ↑07 Apr 2018, 08:47 I could also see people in America lumping her into different groups just as a knee jerk reaction. Race is not an exact science, to be completely honest it isn't a science at all, leading people to decide she's Black, Latino, or Asian before she gets the chance to tell them her own story.
I also think where in America her story was moved to would influence how people would react to her. If she was in a predominately rich white suburb in New England versus a predominately middle class ranching area in the mid-west, people would probably "lump her" into a different group and act accordingly.
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I think the story would work in a different setting, as long as Natalie's father was of a race different from the majority.
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