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  1. Cynthia wrote:

    Question: Do you REALLY relate more to a character of your own ethnicity/culture, especially if it’s literature set in the present? I don’t see how a reader like me, a 80s and 90s suburban born and raised Chinese Canadian woman, can really have anything in common with someone who was born and raised in Chinatown.

    I can see a plot set in 1920s-1930s high society Shanghai working well, but a story like that can very well take place in New York just by changing the location and the names!

  2. Latoya Peterson wrote:

    Cynthia –

    There’s a post coming up where you can address that. My answer is yes, I do, but that is because I am looking for certain things in my narrative. So when I read things like Tia Williams’ “The Accidental Diva” I can read about a fabulous magazine beauty editor who isn’t blonde, who isn’t obsessed with thinness and who deals with other ethnicities without thinking they are the help.

    Now, that doesn’t mean that you can’t relate to women of other cultures. Some characters are just great characters and you can relate or empathize with them. It really depends.