Talk:Men Like Gods

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No racial segregation in Utopia[edit]

Among other set pieces listed in the Themes section of the article was “a reflection on racial segregation, which largely persists in Utopia”. The passage in the novel which is referred to, in Book 3, Chapter 2, Section 2, reads:

“There had not been even a general admixture of races. On Utopia as on earth there had been dusky and brown peoples, and they remained distinct. The various races mingled socially but did not interbreed very much; rather they purified and intensified their racial gifts and beauties. There was often very passionate love between people of contrasted race, but rarely did such love come to procreation.”

I think that the only other line which has some bearing on the matter is in Book 3, Chapter 3, Section 1:

“In Utopia we found out long ago that no race of human beings was sufficiently great, subtle and powerful to think and act for any other race.”

As there is no suggestion of enforced racial separation, and the distinction between racial groups is largely a matter of aesthetics, I've simply edited the article to reflect this.--Mabzilla (talk) 01:06, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Mabzilla: Good catch! That whole paragraph was original research, with no backing from outside secondary sources. When dealing with themes of fictional works, we need to be paying attention to which material is drawn from the primary source, and from secondary sources (see WP:PASI). Because themes are debatable, they should be tied to opinions by critics via Wikipedia's Verifiability policy. I have removed the paragraph, since it likely has other subjective moves in there. I would invite you to expand the article using secondary scholarly sources. Google seems to think their are many: see the Google Scholar search. Sadads (talk) 13:14, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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