If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You have to work at creating your own culture.
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
Language is a social art.
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
My use of language is part and parcel of my message.
If you are sincere and true to your work, you will be respected. And for me, respect is power.
I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.
When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.