Bloodchild

Discuss how the text(s) you read for this week's assignment did or did not reflect the values and perspectives of majoritarian culture.

This piece did not reflect the values and perspective of majoritarian culture in the ways that it was portrayed as distinctly alien, and that humans were the invaders of another planet, and that in order to survive, humans had to have relationships with alien creatures that laid eggs inside of our intestines and organs. This storyline specifically is not something that people tend to think of on an everyday basis. The young main character of the story being chosen as the one to carry the alien babies, and going back and forth on whether to go through with it or not, is ultimately somehow a little bit closer to how we think. If there is any major decision we have to make as humans, it is often dragged out and thought over the possibilities many times before finalizing anything, let alone if other people's lives are at stake. This piece does reflect the values and perspectives of majoritarian culture in the way that it is obviously very human-centric. The characters are made out to be very humanoid and have similarities to human nature. This makes sense of course for a human audience. We always see it from our own perspective (the humans'.) I would be interested to see something of similar plot be from the opposite perspective, from what we consider to be the "alien" perspective. I am sure there are plenty of allegories and correlations to human nature and how specific things in this piece can be relevant to modern-day as we know it. Although if it is close enough to modern-day, I'm not sure what the exact moral of the story would be. Overall I really liked reading this piece for its interesting perspective into the human mind as well as speculation on how relationships with other species might procure.