Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26184570-20170127031413/@comment-26347028-20170202075846

Argali1 wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

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Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

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Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

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Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

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Argali1 wrote: A universal language makes perfect sense, but not at the expense of native tounges! Eureka, think of it like this - there would be so many political and military advantages to the Terrans keeping alive lesser-known native languages. Such as? Military codes, cultural identity, a way of keeping secrets from the enemy... Codes are much better done in conlangs that are designed to be awkward to understand, and labelling cultural identity valuable is a denial of their common humanity that is being denied by their "cultural identity". Cultural identity has nothing to do with denying common Humanity. You have two options here, when you get down to it. "We're all human" or "we're British, they're French, they're Irish, and you're American." Who's to say you can't be both? The latter detracts from the former. Not true! What detracts from the former is the artificial construct of racism, not cultural identity. Cultural identity = inherent racism. For you maybe. It is the human condition that if we draw attention to differences, we place inherent values upon those differences - generally that the ones we align ourselves with are considerably more valuable. Racism. Heart, just because I identify as Jewish doesn't make me hate non-Jews! Thing is, it does… even ever-so-slightly. Oh, so now you know my feelings better than I do? I know how humans work. It has been observed, and will continue to be observed. Humans value what they know of, and devalue the unknown. It allows for them to form communities, and not die alone. Although not all, as there are explorers etc., do this, it's an underlying theme of human culture. Specifically identifying as something different to everyone else separates you from them. And culturally identifying yourself separates you from other cultures. This separation is the bias. Subservience is a possibility, though nowadays it's incredibly rare, so I wouldn't say it's that sort of bias; which leaves just one possibility.

Yes, apparently I do know you better than you do. You must be projecting your own feelings of prejudice on me, because if anything, I'm more drawn to people who are different. It's how humans work. The fact you feel the need to point out the difference speaks for itself. The fact that I identify as Jewish doesn't make me racist, and your persistence to indicate otherwise has significantly lowered the amount of respect I have for you. I'm not quite sure whether I should be flattered you seemingly respected me, or whether I shouldn't care about some overexcited kid trying to explain to me how cultural identity has worth, when I threw mine away years ago.