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|| Republic Commando: Triple Zero || 2006 || Book series || Military, Sci-fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||
But cultural difference or not, calling a disabled person defective gives you clues about the overall society of the Kaminoans and what is their stance about "imperfections".
( IRL historical examples of eugenics )So yes, if you have REALLY BAD FEELING when reading about RepComm!Kaminoans, this is why.
Kamino was damp. And damp didn't help his shattered ankle one little bit. No, it was more than damp: it was nothing but storm-whipped sea from pole to pole, and he wished that he'd worked that out before he responded to Jango Fetes offer of a lucrative long-term deployment in a location that his old comrade hadn't exactly specified.
----Skirata knew from day one that he wouldn't like Kaminoans.Their cold yellow eyes troubled him, and he didn't care for their arrogance, either. They stared at his limping gait and asked if he minded being defective.
This detail caught my eyes. Later we get to know that this injury was from a mistake he did in the past which he didn't get to fix "because he has to remember it". Anyway, Kal is a physically disabled man. We know he has hearing impairment too from Targets.
Now, for a Kaminoans approach to life and living is very much the mindset of eugenics, and such things as disability is an evolutionary failure that has to be erased. When you try to understand the Kaminoans and their cloning process, you have to understand that their own reproduction is also cloning-based. They keep the desired traits and terminate the undesired one. Kaminoans have a caste system and these different castes can be differentiated by their appearance. Any diversion from the established caste is met with termination. In their eyes, Kal is a defective human being. It's a cultural difference which Kal mistakes for arrogance. It even occured to me that maybe this was the Kaminoans own weird attempt at establishing connection and offer that they can fix his ankle without a hitch because for them, a natural born person choosing to be deliberately disabled especially with an injury that can be cured, is not something they can comprehend with their own mindset.
But cultural difference or not, calling a disabled person defective gives you clues about the overall society of the Kaminoans and what is their stance about "imperfections".
( IRL historical examples of eugenics )So yes, if you have REALLY BAD FEELING when reading about RepComm!Kaminoans, this is why.
