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My view has always been that a book is a product of the culture in which it was written, and has to be looked at from that perspective, not as a product of today's culture. Yes, many 19th and early 20th century books do portray non-Europeans and non-Christians in an extremely unfavourable light, but unfortunately those were the prevalent attitudes of the time, and we can't "blame" an author for reflecting the cultural mores of the society in which he or she lived.
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