I disagree wholeheartedly with pretty much all of this. (Also, of course the "existence" of race doesn't make it an issue. I never said nor implied that.)
First, Dany's whiteness is one and the same with her ancestry (her white-haired, fair-skinned ancestors) and this gives her power, both literal and figurative (much the same way it does for white folks today). She absolutely wouldn't have been treated the same as a "black" character, because she wouldn't have been the Mother of Dragons.
Oh I wasn't talking about the Khalasaar, I was talking about her current conquest of the major cities of the East - her quest is absolutely to change their customs, which she considers her own more enlightened.
But many major cities of medieval Europe were international ports, like Venice. Yes, they received many travellers from various regions - that doesn't mean that the predominant culture isn't European mercantilism and the culture distinct from the rest of Essos - it fully is.
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Date: 2012-12-12 02:38 pm (UTC)From:First, Dany's whiteness is one and the same with her ancestry (her white-haired, fair-skinned ancestors) and this gives her power, both literal and figurative (much the same way it does for white folks today). She absolutely wouldn't have been treated the same as a "black" character, because she wouldn't have been the Mother of Dragons.
Oh I wasn't talking about the Khalasaar, I was talking about her current conquest of the major cities of the East - her quest is absolutely to change their customs, which she considers her own more enlightened.
But many major cities of medieval Europe were international ports, like Venice. Yes, they received many travellers from various regions - that doesn't mean that the predominant culture isn't European mercantilism and the culture distinct from the rest of Essos - it fully is.