Er, what actually worries me is that Gaiman has a history of appropriating things and not doing it correctly, which is rather aptly summed up by his quote here, on The Graveyard Book.
The great thing about having an English cemetery is I could go back a very, very, very long way. And in America, you go back 250 years (in a cemetery), and then suddenly you’ve got a few dead Indians, and then you don’t have anybody at all, unless you decide to set it up in Maine or somewhere and sneak in some Vikings.
Really? Dead First Nations people have no history? Thanks.
I'd rather not see another piece of my childhood desecrated on the altar of white, Hollywood entitlement, thanks.
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Date: 19 Mar 2011 08:01 pm (UTC)The great thing about having an English cemetery is I could go back a very, very, very long way. And in America, you go back 250 years (in a cemetery), and then suddenly you’ve got a few dead Indians, and then you don’t have anybody at all, unless you decide to set it up in Maine or somewhere and sneak in some Vikings.
Really? Dead First Nations people have no history? Thanks.
I'd rather not see another piece of my childhood desecrated on the altar of white, Hollywood entitlement, thanks.