Ugh. I know that there are other racist and faily things happening in that story not just the language one but that's the one I keep getting stuck on. Pro-Colonialism, pro-Imperialism fiction from the 1950s described non-European languages as gibberish. We should be so far beyond that by now. /o\
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Date: 2010-06-16 01:13 pm (UTC)