So shifgrethor is just izzat?Why did he act like there was no Earthly equivalent? Has India been destroyed and forgotten in this timeline?
>>25401631LeGuin was deeply amateur in cultural anthropology. Probably for the best desu. Erikson is a pro and LeGuin left used lengths of toilet paper superior to anything he ever wrote.
>>25401631I shall never enquire as to the meaning of Izzat. It sounds scummy and subcontinental, I assume it means Indian virtue generally (ie vice). My life will be better for not understanding the word properly.
>>25401631Historically, an honorable man and an honorable woman have different virtues and places in society. Here, people are both man and woman, so there's no clean 1:1 equivalent with Earth.
>>25401631>Has India been destroyed and forgotten in this timeline?Some people are just lucky.
>>25401721it's the same basic concept as "saving face".
I believe Westerners belong to a face culture
>>25401631I’ve read 60 books this year and this is the first one I formally gave up on, and I gave up on it 80% of the way through. Not sure who it’s for, I think trannies like it because it’s about a world of hermaphrodites. Boring plot, flat characters, uninteresting political story. I always regarded LeGuin as a good author but this book was dreadful.
>>25402022We have an anti-racist face culture, it's mostly about not being mean to blacks and if anything you do is being corrupted by jews, you really can't be publically known to know this. For example, if you write about the deranged Iran war, the Israel lobby behind it can't really be acknowledged to be jews engaging in jewish supremacist politics, you must pretend that the zionist lobby is run by white supremacist christians. You also can't acknowledge that this group is, outside of zionism, completely useless.
>>25401721>>25401929It literally just means honor and it's not Indian anyway. It's Urdu so it's either a Persian or arab word
>>25402033>I’ve read 60 books this year>people will totally believe I'm smart if I make up a large number
>>25402155>he doesn't read 10 books a monthNGMI
>>25401631dont let the ant-indian racism spill over to /lit/
>>25402128Yeah it's some muzzie Turkish nonsense
Love this book
>>25401631I preferred Catwings which is about Cats with Wings
>>25402048It's not just that. Conspicuous consumption underlies nearly every aspect of contemporary western behavior, probably in part of Capitalism or rather through Capitalism (not railing against capital in this post).Just look at how much a Western Man or Woman'l is judged by what they consume; how much money is spent to look rich, classy, and cultured, or in the modern day the avoidance of looking "trashy" or seeking to be more "authentic". The very idea of "authenticity" accessed through discerning purchases from "authentic" vendors who market themselves as such in America and Europe is nearly an oxymoron or better described perhaps as a Baudrillardian simulacrum of the real. All because outwards facing "authenticity" is a highly prestigious traitIn America there are even brands I can subscribe to to affirm and signal my political affiliations to improve my standing in the community hence the emergence of woke companies, chud companies, and the fencesitters
>>25403476Ironic since the zionists are using Camp of the Saints as their guide
