While history has recorded that the ICS were aloof and disdainful of the "natives", in reality, the men who ran India were selfless, efficient and - most importantly of all - completely incorruptible.
Give us the sense of being present for an experience completely native to virtual reality, not merely an emulation of experiences we can already inhabit.
The stubborn adherence to an inappropriate plant palette is "justified" by statements that deny an obvious reality: "Native plants are fragile and not as durable as non-natives" (though natives survive in the wild without irrigation).
Just a few pages before the end of his book, he mentions that contemporary scholars have accused Curtis of posing his subjects and conspiring to drape the hard realities of Native American life in an aura of silky romance.
But "Immigration Reform" also ignores the realities of Native Peoples in the US, whose own lands continue to be taken from them and divided yet again by the militarization of the US Mexico border.
Helle, who is originally from Norway but now based in London, tells Creators that Becoming the Forest is very much about investigating her native land, especially the realities and fantasies that abound.
In reality, this native island species is one of the world's greatest conservation success stories.
Native communities were in reality very rarely Edenic.
Angel Ivel, 51, an air-conditioner repairman from East Harlem, reflected both pride in his native Puerto Rico and the reality of life here as he hoisted a Puerto Rican flag in a community garden in solitary acknowledgment of the day.
Most people here credit one person with making the club a reality: a native son turned sports entrepreneur named Lewis Katz. "This is the most beautiful thing that Lewis Katz could have given money to, somewhere positive and safe for our kids to come to," said Bernadette Strongtalley, whose three children are members.
