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I wanted a persona to really reflect our point of view at the time that colonial policies were beginning.
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The speaker wanted to create a persona that expressed a shared point of view during the early period of colonial policies. The statement presents the persona as a way to represent how “we” saw events at that time, rather than as a purely individual identity.
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- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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