Can writers write about any experience they haven't experienced themselves?

I’d argue that’s not the case at all. It might be in the United States, perhaps, but my own people (the Sami) were assimilated, brutalized, enslaved and forced into Christianity by our Scandinavian overlords. And today, we’re subjected to hate speech as well as ridicule. We are a minority, a Finno-Urgic people, but our skin is also white.

Either way, I wouldn’t consider my experiences similar to any US POC, because I’ve not the faintest clue how things work there.

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