Skylark Series/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Fair Forfor Its Day]]: By modern standards, the treatment of Crane's Japanese servant Shiro is pretty awful. He's brought along to do all the menial work, he acts in a servile fashion, he speaks only broken English (until a language-teaching machine is invented early in book 2), and in general he's a walking stereotype. However, by 1920s and 1930s standards the part where Shiro is allowed to demonstrate any intelligence at all, shows physical courage in the face of danger equal to the most stalwart of the heroes, actually speaks in intelligent and cultured English the instant he learns the language (and even his prior speech merely had bad ''grammar'', not pronunciation or content) and has his employer treat him as a close personal friend and confidant and consider any injuries done to him equally as worthy of avenging in blood as injuries done to any of his other friends or loved ones is infinitely better treatment than a Japanese man could expect to get in popular entertainment of that era.