Does anyone else have that problem where you automatically imagine

I don't even have a picture of the character before the author describes it. It's just a concept with a name attached to me.

>>8898938
Why is this a problem?

Why is it a problem?

>>8898938
lol I had the same problem when I was reading Crime and Punishment.

I kept imagining the Russian Characters as being white lol!

>>8898955
Russians are white though

So when you are left with no answer, you think the character is white and you consider this to be a problem. But then to solve this problem you ask for books that won't leave you with that doubt? I mean, obviously, if the book is explicit about it, you have no room to imagine something else, except in this way you will still be left with the same unchanged automatic response when you read another book that leaves it to imagination. Why not just assume the prejudice, face it everytime you imagine a character and perhaps transform that process of imagination while you're at it?

>>8898949
yeah, after a while it's sort of just a feeling
what helps is noticing how many different versions of people you can make from the same descriptions that still fit

for a while characters would change around every couple of chapters until I hit a few key details that seemed immutable, but by the time I've hit my stride in a story, I'm really focused more on the way the words make me feel and what the author is trying to get me to imagine than what I am actually visualizing or imagining.

>>8898949
I feel the same way.

When it is said
>A man walks out of his house and get to the car
I don't imagine any man in particular, house in particular or car in particular. I only know it's not a woman, an apartment or a bike.

>>8898938
I imagine everything as anime. It's been like this as long as I can remember.

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>>8898938

>I need to break this habit, so what would you suggest?

>>8898972
Haha, holy shit. I thought I was the only one who did this. Imagine my pleasure when I was reading Discworld and the delicious brown girl showed up.

>>8898949
I don't have a picture of the character AFTER the author describes it, really. Everyone looks like nothing to me.
>>8898972
this sounds hilarious to me

>>8898950
this
if you have a problem with your imagination you have worse things to worry for

>>8898992
I'm sure there's more of us out there then you'd think at first glance.
Also reading lolita was a trip

>>8898993
It's a bit of a mixed bag tbqh. On one hand I'm sure it reflects deep-seated pathologies that I don't want to touch with a ten-foot pole. On the other hand I don't think I'd enjoy literature half as much if I didn't.

>>8898938
I'm basically colourblind to race in real life so its not an issue for me, I don't even notice people are black before its mentioned in conversation

>>8898938
Try Paulo Coelho's the Alchemist.

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I just picture myself

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>>8898938
I definitely have that problem too. All through the seven Harry Potter books I was picturing Hermione as a white girl. Imagine how embarrassed I felt when the author corrected me.

>>8899041
This. It's a bit simple, but actually the "protagonists" are fit to be from the middle-east.

>>8898938
If the book's set in a majority white part of the world, I do. If it's not, I imagine them accordingly. Africans if it's in Africa; Asians if it's in Asia; etc.

>>8899230
Why are you doing that when you aren't the OP? Do you enjoy confusing people? Are you (insert name of author who is well known for confusing people)?

>>8898938
A Wizard of Earthsea

>>8898958
What's the alt-right memesters' take on this question? They generally seem to be big fans of Russia, or at least Putin, but on the other hand Hitler wasn't very keen on the Slavs.

>>8899534
It's almost as if the 'alt right' aren't Nazis or something.

>>8899526
Isn't this the one where they have ridiculous colors?

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>>8898938
No lol!!

>>8898938
I imagine their phenotypes according to context.
You could try reading some Brazilian literature which does not include Paulo Coelho and picture each character as pertaining to a different ethnicity.

>>8898938
Why do you need to break this habit? If you're in a majority-white country reading a book by a white person in a majority-white country it's perfectly reasonable to do. Just read the back of the book if you want to know if it's about white people or not.

>>8898986
niceme.me

Theres this textbook about electronic circuits wrote by Sadiku. I studied this for years picturing Sadiku as a japanese since it is about electronics. One day I saw the preface and discovered Sadiku is actually an African or Congolese.

>>8899230

That's because they're Spanish and the Spanish have a touch of the tar brush.

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>>8900822

Just don't imagine them as anything then. A book doesn't have to play out like a movie in your head

>>8898938
You could check out Zone One by Colson Whitehead. You basically don't know the characters' races for sure until way late in the book. Besides, it's a pretty neat book

>>8899534
>They generally seem to be big fans of Russia, or at least Putin, but on the other hand Hitler wasn't very keen on the Slavs.

They also can't decide if the Holocaust is the "Holohoax" or the Nazi's great work/back in the oven/gas the kikes race war now.

The Nazis themselves were hilariously inconsistent on their own stance on the Jews. On one hand the Jews were international finance usurers on the other they were the apparent aegis of Bolshevism.

>>8899581
lol no

>>8903082
This. Fascists do not have beliefs, they have feels.

>>8898938
Yep.
I also assume everyone on the internet is middle class, early twenties white dudes.

It depends where the book is from. Even though America isn't only a bite people, I'm white and American, so whenever a male character is of an u specified race but is American I imagine him to be white. I don't see how it's a problem, really.

>>8903153
...and this is bad how?

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>>8899534
t. alt-right memester