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Marchie wrote:To me writing is all about getting out of your comfort zone, though. I'm a white guy but I've played characters from all over the world and its led to learning a bit about different cultures too by researching how they'd act. It's just fun to me to play someone outside the norm for typical roleplays.
almostinsane wrote:It all boils down to what you feel comfortable writing. I know someone who plays exclusively black female characters because she is a black female, though, she might play an Asian now and then.
Saari wrote:What QB said, and as you'll see in that thread and others like it, boils down to stereotypes with a lot of users. They don't know how to write "black culture" or "Arab culture" or "Asian culture". What they mean is they don't want to write stereotypes, but the stereotypes are what they know.
Often they aren't the reality, which is something I don't think many of our users really understand. A black character doesn't have to "act black" no more than a white character has to "act white".
An Irishman can be sober, a Russian doesn't have to be a communist.
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It's a book about slavery. I might also recommend Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and Booker T. Washington's "Up From Slavery". I hunted my university's bookstore looking for history books about Africa, and there was almost criminal level of silence. I also looked for books about the Native Canadian experience, and it's the same. People can't or won't write about it.Aniihya wrote:I am not familiar with the "Book of Negroes" however, so I can't really do much with it.
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