/lit/ - Literature

>>22324958
If you're Asian the only way is to have extremely rich parents and government connections.

>>21657579
Read The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant
quit reading globohomo crap

>>19394276
Tell her to read Native American authors' stories and history. What is unique about their experiences and myths? What is the myth that binds their community? To my knowledge, most but not all natives held universalist beliefs. You can look up most mainline religious history and many of them felt that the myths of yesterday may not necessarily be the myths of tomorrow. This is the reason many tribes cooperated with and accepted the new myths of Europeans and they mixed their cultures. Aztecs are one exception to this. They were a periphery empire from the parent Mayan civilization. I really want to explore that aspect of their resistance because it's fascinating how different they were from the other nations. Another aspect is that most native nations were classified as societies, not civilizations. They did not go through the same cycles of history as others. A lot of them were destroyed because of dependence on foreign technology and their myths fading into irrelevancy. The first chapter of Tragedy and Hope (Carol Quigley) explains this. It is not to disrespect natives or even westerners, but simply to admit the civilizations tend to have this effect on small societies without conscious effort, so it'd be unwise to blame westerners for this. One might also question what was left of the original England or Spain before the Romans showed up. History changes people.

Then she should write a character informed from some of those experiences and then include a Native American as an alpha/beta reader if she's concerned about the accuracy.

I say this and I'm pretty far from woke. There's a difference between understanding what you're writing about and be ashamed that you want to use it as a setting. If I could have told my story in a futuristic setting I would but when I looked at the elements, it kept implying a different thesis so I just went with a historical narrative to tell a personal story. I will be doing that for a story I plan set in another country, but I'll take the feedback at arms length because it's set over 2000 years ago, so the modern people will be quite different. I just wanted to see how some readers might react to it, but mainly concerned with how the narrative works.