There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
Most people are generally satisfied with their representative.
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.
Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.