#why is this family of immigrant laborers from southern china (given the 1840s-1860s background) speaking mandarin
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tell me why did I trust how much of these hills is gold even after knowing it had blown up on TikTok....
#why is this family of immigrant laborers from southern china (given the 1840s-1860s background) speaking mandarin#when realistically they should have been speaking Cantonese?#this trend of western Chinese-descendants telling stories about traumas they didn't experience while erasing languages and experiences#that non-Han Chinese people and other asian people have gone through is very weird#especially concerning since it's done by otherwise very knowledgeable and inquisitive writers#like why are PoCs in this book treated like faceless background characters (despite this being a diverse take on the Wild West novel)#with magical and Good connection to The Land#while the white villains are nuanced and extremely detailed? it's also clownish to paint the white characters as overwhelmingly rich becaus#of their exploitation of The Land - which the PoC characters seem to find abhorrent and oppose to - when capitalism is a sickness that#catches everyone and the white protestant man#while more powerful than the black or latino man#was /also/ made to sweat and spit blood on a land that gave him nothing#no war but class war but I guess that's too hard to fathom!#(good book with strong plot choices here and there - the dad pov chapter was very very good and deserving of its own book imo - but yeah. i#was made for a puzzling read at times)#literature#how much of these hills is gold
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