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Unbreakable Josuke Higashikata99 wrote: From Ship of the Dead:

“Alex perused the titles on the bookshelves.

“Anything good?” I asked.

He shrugged. “The Lord of the Rings. Not bad. Sylvia Plath. Nice. Oh, The Left Hand of Darkness. I love that book. The rest…meh. His collection is a little heavy on dead white males for my taste.”

I suppose this is meant to be a joke, but the political nature of Alex (Keep in mind this is VERY  early in SotD before the development, so Alex is still on the heels of being a divisive figure.) makes it a little hard to see it as such. I think I get the intended joke. Early European historians used to often portray the native culture of the place they are colonizing as lower than their own. Since Alex is technically Mexican, and colonizing.... well, maybe I am ovetrthinking it.