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Indeed, and I think it's an issue we should address more proactively. Our current demographic makeup tends to be self-perpetuating.Most AH writers, in the English language at least, are WEIRD. They are from Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic countries. This is true of the average internet user (of English language sites) but isn't true of the average person in the world.
As such SLP has had writers from the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland and France. But none living in China or Nigeria or Argentina.
Indeed, and I think it's an issue we should address more proactively. Our current demographic makeup tends to be self-perpetuating.
Guys save this hot discourse for the S,T,U article.
there has been some excellent AH written about non European societies, from writers like Jonathan Edelstein and Jared Kavanagh, but within both SLP and larger English speaking AH spaces these are exceptions, not the rule
I wonder how many people who watch The Man in the High Castle understand that if you just remove the swastikas from that poster you have OTL's 1950s suburban America.Nazi victory to me is to picture a Home Owners Association as the government in America. We play down the horror and control and play up "see how neat, tidy, clean, and PERFECT everything is?" How tall is the Grass in Germany? was from the POV of an elite. A man with authority, money, and more. Yet he is a broken thing... and he happens to live in a Nazi occupied America.
but frankly the research effort involved in writing an excellent 1990s Mongolian AH is hardly less than a 1060s English AH?
Then again the research effort is at least half the fun.I'd suggest that the research effort involved in the former is likely to be - for many people - significantly higher than in the latter.
There's a reason there's so much literary fiction about middle-aged English professors contemplating whether to commit adultery.As the quip goes, if people wrote about what they know, most novels would be about professionally frustrated middle-aged dudes.
Indeed, it makes it decent satire but - IMO - not very interesting AH. Like, the Nazis didn’t run Germany like contemporary American suburbia. There’d have been more differences than what we see in the show.I wonder how many people who watch The Man in the High Castle understand that if you just remove the swastikas from that poster you have OTL's 1950s suburban America.
I was gonna say, I don't remember Hitler having a 95% tax rate on the highest earners, improving standards of living for millions and presiding over a period of high social mobility (not for all, of course). Surely the best edgy modern comparison to 1950s American suburbia would be Modi's India, where valid criticisms such as mistreatment of minorities such as Muslims and Christians tend to get countered by "millions of people now have indoor plumbing for the first time in their lives, your argument is invalid".Like, the Nazis didn’t run Germany like contemporary American suburbia.
I wonder how many people who watch The Man in the High Castle understand that if you just remove the swastikas from that poster you have OTL's 1950s suburban America.
I recently came across a claim that the bootstraps line was a parody, seeing as pulling on your own bootstraps doesn't actually lift you anywhere at all. Which is interesting to contemplate given your objections to the belief.One big thing was it being rooted in how much I hate "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" notions that US Southern characters tend to get. Not skill or ability but just "If I try hard it will succeed!" Yet in a CSA dominated world it would be a place where landowners and their decedents always get the benefit of things.