It is often said that it is critical that voices from different perspectives be heard, but I wonder if people can tell the difference between an authentic identity and a fake identity. This brings us to the story of Yi-Fen Chou who is actually just the pen name of a distinctly not Asian American person named Michael Derrick Hudson. A white guy wrote a poem that admittedly contained no specific cultural elements (It wasn't written in a particularly Asian style) but had trouble getting it published under his name so he invented the pen name of Yi-Fen Chou. It was then more readily accepted, and the person accepting it even admitted to finding the poem more amenable because of who the editor THOUGHT wrote the poem. In fact it is now one of the best poems of 2015 apparently.
This begs the question, was there anything especially unique about a particular perspective or identity considering how easy it was for Michael Derrick Hudson with only a pen-name to effectively trick the editor? Can you tell a genuine perspective from a well crafted fake?