If it had been just a matter of the white characters' prejudices, I wouldn't have taken issue with the story as much, if at all. And I'm not Balinese or even Indonesian myself, though I suppose my indigenous-peoples buttons were pushed (I'm Metis on my father's side). I'd like to think I would have taken just as much issue with a story that read to me as anti-Semitic.
Thank you for sharing your own feelings of ambivalence; my two biggest worries in posting about 'The Shocking Affair' were that I would ruin the Yuletide experience for Franzi (though I didn't know at the time who she was), and that I would ruin it for you as the recipient.
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Date: 2004-01-02 05:06 pm (UTC)Thank you for sharing your own feelings of ambivalence; my two biggest worries in posting about 'The Shocking Affair' were that I would ruin the Yuletide experience for Franzi (though I didn't know at the time who she was), and that I would ruin it for you as the recipient.