Postcolonial Speculative Fiction

Hybridity and colonization

The idea of hybridity is a strange one to me. I understand what it is and how it happens, but I don't understand the great concerns some people have about it. As cultures come into contact with one another, they exchange ideas, values, and traditions, in addition to goods. Each culture has the opportunity to decide what works for them, what they will keep, and what they will discard. If force is used to impose one culture's values on another, the problem is obvious. That's called colonization. I kind of see that happening with the aliens in this book. They seem to be the new breed of colonizer.

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