I'm always somewhat bewildered by that point of view. Anyone with more then a thimbleful of empathy can usually think their way around how others may feel. Yeah, you might have to do a bit more research then someone already in that culture but research isn't a horrible thing anyhow.
It was what always amused me about people who kept telling me I should write about what I knew rather then doing things like writing from the point of view of a World War 2 soldier (The story I had been writing at the time.) because I obviously had never been to war, so I wouldn't know what that was like.
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Date: 2008-03-27 09:04 am (UTC)It was what always amused me about people who kept telling me I should write about what I knew rather then doing things like writing from the point of view of a World War 2 soldier (The story I had been writing at the time.) because I obviously had never been to war, so I wouldn't know what that was like.
In other words, people are dumb.