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When people are reading they make the text their own, whether they are reading a person or

words on a piece of paper. There are as many ways to interpret text as there are readers and

each reader has their own knowledge reservoir to draw from. People relate what they are

reading to what they know and have experienced. If they see and immigrant or traveller

they will associate everything they know about the persons country to them. If they are

reading a narrative they will visualise the characters as they would expect to find them

based on their experience. The ethnicity of both the reader and what is being read can be a

particularly powerful aspect affecting interpretation. A European academic is going

approach a text in a different way than an African tribal elder. Under this scrutiny even the

most seemingly universal topics will be read, interpreted and pondered in a way that will

give specific meaning to the reader; this meaning may even be......

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