Good point about Alas, Babylon in returning to semi-traditional.
I think maybe the author hinted toward a world with more equality, since eventually, GI Joe does wind up being the closest with his black neighbors. But with it being 1953, and the racist atmosphere of the US at the time, it probably behooved him to reign in his equality with those characters. So, they played the whole "Yes, Boss. No, boss" card. Totally pissed me off.
I think Europe returned to their old ways as much as any colonized world can. That's the royal bitch of a post-colonial society: no matter how hard you try to shake the influences and imposed social structure of the colonizers, you can't get rid of all of it.
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Date: 2011-04-19 03:15 pm (UTC)I think maybe the author hinted toward a world with more equality, since eventually, GI Joe does wind up being the closest with his black neighbors. But with it being 1953, and the racist atmosphere of the US at the time, it probably behooved him to reign in his equality with those characters. So, they played the whole "Yes, Boss. No, boss" card. Totally pissed me off.
I think Europe returned to their old ways as much as any colonized world can. That's the royal bitch of a post-colonial society: no matter how hard you try to shake the influences and imposed social structure of the colonizers, you can't get rid of all of it.