Read the excerpt from midsummer by derek walcott.

their thick skulls bled with rancor
when the riot police and the skinheads exchanged quips
you could trace to the sonnets, or the moor’s eclipse.

which factors most influence the speaker’s perspective?

gender and geographic location
age and geographic location
culture and gender
race and culture

The factors that most influence the speaker's perspective are race and culture.

Explanation:

In this excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott, the speaker is talking about what seems to have been a fight in which skinheads (a subculture characterized by close-cropped hair and heavy boots, often perceived as aggressive), moors (members of a Muslim people of Berber and Arab descent), and the police were involved. The speaker seems to have noticed in this fight the race and cultural differences between all these groups of people and seems to know the history of each group.

awnser:

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following forpurely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundredyears after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabicimprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual historyacknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation ofboth the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. thevast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has beenintegrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-calledbaghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages arepreceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in itsturn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating fromindian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culturehold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisinglyfew details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actualposition within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss linksbetween the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveyingthese links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabiannights in modern iran