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Nazetrime Since: Jan, 2012
2019-02-09 01:17:39

Bumping because it was about to slip off the first page. My dislike of the possibility of going along with the deletion isn't as bad as it was a couple days ago, so I may end up doing that.

(This topic basically exists because my "actually, that person may have been right to delete this" thoughts usually kick in within half an hour tops, so I tend to assume I will never figure things out on my own if the tempation to reverse the change is still there after several hours)

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Reymma Since: Feb, 2015
2019-02-09 02:14:27

But is it really about values? This seems to be entirely about knowledge. The characters aren't expressing any xenophobia, they just don't know about other countries.

I understand wanting to preempt the feeling that it's parochial, but I don't think Deliberate Values Dissonance is the trope for it. Nor do I think that paragraph would be any good for defusing such sentiments, it just makes new readers think "why was the story set up to justify ignorance of China?"

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
Nazetrime Since: Jan, 2012
2019-02-09 09:37:47

Thanks for the feedback. I think my logic boiled down to the idea that the values of a society include what it considers important to teach its children, which has conesquences when they become adults. In a time where distant places are in fairly easy contact with each other, knowledge about other places is considered important. Not so much when travel is so restricted only a few people actually do it. I otherwise happen to have gotten glimpses of corners of the Internet in which people seem to have trouble making a distinction between completely innocent ignorance about a given group and active bigotry against it.

Off to doing the deletion!

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