And then there's the part where I, or we, feel guilty about it. Because I can’t help loving things and universes and characters and writers and movies that are not really made for me, but I can’t get away from it. Because it's there. I grow up with that, I learn from that, I am used to that. And then there are the times when I even feel like I’m part of something that is, in reality, alien to me. Makes me feel like I know it, when I don't. I underestimate, on some ways, realities and people as though they’re so familiar to me, I’m free to judge or argue over it reasonably. That’s what flares this whole thing. It’s an endless cycle. Know the thing about a lie being told several times until it becomes the truth? Works the same way, I guess. My situation here is a bit different, but walks the same road. It’s a matter of how natural things become, of how easily familiarized you are, and, most of all, of how intense and disrupting an intervention of that type can be, regardless of the intent.
It's not completely bad to have stereotypes, because stereotypes, one way or another, create a mutual feeling of belonging. It's by generalizing that you are made part of something, right? Part of a group, part of a people, part of a country – and people might disagree here, but I have absolutely nothing against being me, with my thoughts and opinions and individualities, and being a Brazilian, sharing certain marks of expression that identify me as part of the syncretism that has formed my birthplace’s traditions. But there are limits to generalizing and the creation of stereotypes and that is the line, or distorting factor, that keeps being transcended all the time. Like deepad said,
how difficult it is to growing up reading books (and watching movies) about a culture alien to you, and how pernicious the influences thereof can be.
(I'm sorry for such a gigantic comment that might have, and probably did, wander so far away from your original comment and purpose of discussion. And I'm also deeply sorry for raping your language.)
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It's not completely bad to have stereotypes, because stereotypes, one way or another, create a mutual feeling of belonging. It's by generalizing that you are made part of something, right? Part of a group, part of a people, part of a country – and people might disagree here, but I have absolutely nothing against being me, with my thoughts and opinions and individualities, and being a Brazilian, sharing certain marks of expression that identify me as part of the syncretism that has formed my birthplace’s traditions. But there are limits to generalizing and the creation of stereotypes and that is the line, or distorting factor, that keeps being transcended all the time. Like deepad said,
how difficult it is to growing up reading books (and watching movies) about a culture alien to you, and how pernicious the influences thereof can be.
(I'm sorry for such a gigantic comment that might have, and probably did, wander so far away from your original comment and purpose of discussion. And I'm also deeply sorry for raping your language.)