(04-17-2015, 03:08 PM)Kayllen Wrote:(04-17-2015, 02:53 PM)Gegenji Wrote:(04-17-2015, 02:45 PM)Kayllen Wrote:(04-17-2015, 02:41 PM)Kage Wrote:(04-17-2015, 02:39 PM)Kayllen Wrote: I wasn't talking about cross breeds. That's been established as a rarity for a long time, now.You were talking about evidence of cultural racisim.
That's the main one.
That... what?
No that's only evidence of difficulty between biology. It's harder to produce offspring between races because conception is supposedly more difficult or some such thing.
No, the statements straight up say that crossbreeds are possible... but don't happen all that often because interracial couples are rare. Not due to the difficulty in conception, but because the races do not like each other. There is bad blood between the races. This is being directly stated in the quotes, which Kage has actually bolded for emphasis.
EDIT: Man, getting beaten to the punch time and time again here.
Again, as I've explained to Kage three times now, it still is NOT evidence that Ishgard is a racist state.
I'm simply stating that a nation (in Eorzea) populated by people (who are Eorzean) could conceivably not like other people (who may or may not be Eorzean) who are not the same (Eorzean) race as them (as an Eorzean race) (Eorzea).
Whether it's true or not? As stated, we don't know. However, there is enough circumstantial evidence for people to RP characters who are subject to this racism (such as a Highlander or Miqo'te Ishgardian, as was the initial point of the thread - irregular race/nationality combinations). If not from the Ishgardian society itself, then from the inherent dislike of one race of another.
You could just as easily play an Ul'dahn Sea Wolf who was bullied as a kid by the Dunesfolk Lalafell he grew up around for being "the son of lawless pirates." Does Ul'dah hate Sea Wolves? We can't say either way - but we could still have a character who suffered racism due to this rampant dislike of people that are not the same race as you that has been categorically proven to exist in Eorzea. Which is the definition of racism.
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