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Hammersmith · **09-30-2015, 08:02 PM**

(09-30-2015, 07:55 PM)Kage Wrote: So, we know that there is discrimination in Ishgard's Society.

Is it more classism or is it racism?

Word of god mentioned tensions between Hyur and Elezen for many years, especially in specifics towards racial cross breeding between Hyur and Elezen.

We now know in 3.0 that Ishgard's High society is based on the perception that the four High Houses are the houses of those Heavensward who survived Nidhogg. Thus, the reason why Hyur are Lowborn is because the remaining (and I think all of them) were only Elezen.

Are the racial tensions and discrimination rooted in racism or in classism?

The two trend towards being one and the same.

Those that have tend to be of a specific group, and to their best to keep a specific group in power. Â You can see this all through history from the Mayflower families in the Northeast to the abuse of the Irish in the turn of the century, to the MASSIVE AND ENDMIC racial divide in America right now that's shown up in everything from subtle cultural highjacking and exploitation to creations of segregation of races by home loan denials.

Those that have, keep having, and will defend that structure. Â Classism and racism are two tools used by the same people for the same end. Â "We're rich. Â Keep out." Â There's lots of other tools involved in this kind of social fuckery, that Beef touches on.

Because by fuck does it keep them in power.

It's one of the reasons the MSQ is so dangerous to Ishgarde and why I was surprised we didn't get a Bolsheveck revolution after one of the Revelations.

I still think that could happen in some of the coming patches, if shit gets bad.

Ishgard's Tensions - Racism or Classism?

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