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| - Sometimes, morals don't travel well. Often, what is appropriate to one culture or time period is repugnant to another. Thus, when dealing with other cultures, an author must make a choice. Some attach the attitudes of their country to the people in the story, resulting in a potentially anachronistic but enjoyable read. Some, however, research the culture and make an effort to reproduce the attitudes of the time and place accurately, even when they are wildly different to what the author might consider sensible. Thus, one ends up with a deliberate case of Values Dissonance.
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| - Sometimes, morals don't travel well. Often, what is appropriate to one culture or time period is repugnant to another. Thus, when dealing with other cultures, an author must make a choice. Some attach the attitudes of their country to the people in the story, resulting in a potentially anachronistic but enjoyable read. Some, however, research the culture and make an effort to reproduce the attitudes of the time and place accurately, even when they are wildly different to what the author might consider sensible. Thus, one ends up with a deliberate case of Values Dissonance. In Historical Fiction and Historical Fantasy, this is an obvious necessity to avoid anachronisms. Readers, indeed, may criticize works for failure to reflect the actual historically accurate views -- as when a Regency heroine has common 21st century views on premarital sex, which is about as likely as her wearing blue jeans -- as Anachronism Stew. Be wary, though, for sometimes Reality Is Unrealistic and the deliberately different values end up just as inaccurate, but in the opposite direction. In Fantasy some readers assume that views contained in the story reflect how the author truly thinks, because the writers build the world. However, other readers will find that modern views expressed in a non-modern society are as anachronistic in an imaginary world as in a real one; even in Fantasy, characters in a feudal society will not hold radically egalitarian views (at least, not without a really interesting Backstory) - if they did, it wouldn't stay a feudal society for very long. Often a meditation or argument against Good Flaws, Bad Flaws. See also Your Normal Is Our Taboo. Contrast Politically-Correct History, Eternal Sexual Freedom, Fair for Its Day, The Theme Park Version. See also Unfortunate Implications, Culture Clash, No Equal-Opportunity Time Travel. Contrast Culture Justifies Anything. Examples of Deliberate Values Dissonance include:
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