Skin color is not interchangeable with race, just so you know. I know it isn't and I'm fairly positive my wording doesn't sound like I think that, but if it does, I apologize, it was not my intention.
I didn't find it to be a good positive thing or indicative of a better future. Why do you think so? For me a future where people don't immediately think "OMG! He's jewish, therefore he's only after money." or "OMG! He's black therefore he's a gangster" positive. I just think that a person is far more than their skin color or, if more specific, race. I also do not think that contemporary world is a place where we can ignore races and cultural differences between them. I do not believe we will ever reach the future I am dreaming about because hermeneutic circle is inescapable. Please do keep in mind that not concentrating on skin color or race is not the same as ignoring individual's or group of people's culture.
That often leads to readers interpreting the characters as white. I believe that is the true problem. But that's the problem of modern society, not the book's. Modern society portrays the average hero as a young white man with the ideals of western society. But there is no one in such books saying that the hero is actually white. It's the reader who imagines them this way.
I don't want to get into this debate now, but is it such a problem if a white american boy interprets such hero as a white american man? If he identifies with that man? This picture sums it up well. But this is for a far longer discussion and it's not what this article of yours is about.
Race and disability are not the same thing. Of course they are not the same thing, but sometimes those things are really irrelevant to the story, that's what I was trying to say and if it wasn't clear - again, I apologize.
I think when the only story told is that EVERY DISABILITY EVER is quickly cured and everyone is made typical/average/"normal", then that's a problem...
I agree with that, but not to that extent. I believe if a story is set in far future that the level of medicine should correspond to this and the quickness of the treatment should be adequate to that. Just a simple flu was far more serious disease even a one hundred years ago. Imagine what can happen in thousands of years. I do believe though that there should be more mentions of new diseases and disabilities that are not cured as quickly or ever. But if it's something there already is cure for in that universe or it's something as normal for them as is getting pills for cold for us nowadays, why it should take long? Why it should be hard? Why should the author concentrate on that if it's not specifically a story that's about disabilities?
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I know it isn't and I'm fairly positive my wording doesn't sound like I think that, but if it does, I apologize, it was not my intention.
I didn't find it to be a good positive thing or indicative of a better future.
Why do you think so? For me a future where people don't immediately think "OMG! He's jewish, therefore he's only after money." or "OMG! He's black therefore he's a gangster" positive. I just think that a person is far more than their skin color or, if more specific, race. I also do not think that contemporary world is a place where we can ignore races and cultural differences between them. I do not believe we will ever reach the future I am dreaming about because hermeneutic circle is inescapable. Please do keep in mind that not concentrating on skin color or race is not the same as ignoring individual's or group of people's culture.
That often leads to readers interpreting the characters as white.
I believe that is the true problem. But that's the problem of modern society, not the book's. Modern society portrays the average hero as a young white man with the ideals of western society. But there is no one in such books saying that the hero is actually white. It's the reader who imagines them this way.
I don't want to get into this debate now, but is it such a problem if a white american boy interprets such hero as a white american man? If he identifies with that man? This picture sums it up well. But this is for a far longer discussion and it's not what this article of yours is about.
Race and disability are not the same thing.
Of course they are not the same thing, but sometimes those things are really irrelevant to the story, that's what I was trying to say and if it wasn't clear - again, I apologize.
I think when the only story told is that EVERY DISABILITY EVER is quickly cured and everyone is made typical/average/"normal", then that's a problem...
I agree with that, but not to that extent. I believe if a story is set in far future that the level of medicine should correspond to this and the quickness of the treatment should be adequate to that. Just a simple flu was far more serious disease even a one hundred years ago. Imagine what can happen in thousands of years. I do believe though that there should be more mentions of new diseases and disabilities that are not cured as quickly or ever. But if it's something there already is cure for in that universe or it's something as normal for them as is getting pills for cold for us nowadays, why it should take long? Why it should be hard? Why should the author concentrate on that if it's not specifically a story that's about disabilities?