It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.
Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction. There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show someone doing something that would have been perfectly normal for the time but that is considered reprehensible today.
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.
Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
If something is really outrageous, it doesn't matter if it is one culture, or another, it's outrageous.
It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.