Representing other cultures etc. in fiction is tricky -- "whitewashing" can be dangerous, but so can cultural essentialism. I try to be relatively random in my assignment of genders, ethnicities, etc. to story roles before I start writing, and it's worked decently well so far.
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Date: 2009-07-08 05:31 pm (UTC)