Fear of Insult: Why I rarely write in a voice other than a first-world Caucasian person
Fear of Insult: Why I rarely write in a voice other than a first-world Caucasian person Throughout the years, I have written (or more accurately started writing) many a story about a young girl in a first-world country. I never specify that she is Caucasian, a female, or living in first world country, but that is the assumed situation. Most of the time, I will write in this way accidentally, but once I started writing for assessments, I started to realise that maybe there’s a reason for my writing coming out the way it does. I am afraid. Throughout my years of writing, I never even thought about writing from the perspective of someone other than ‘myself’, and it has occurred to me, throughout this course in particular, that the reasoning for that is because I am always trying to avoid offense in my writing. We are currently living in a time where political correctness is key to creating a kind world, and multiculturalism is more seen as something that’s attempted, but not neces...