This is a great thread. 
I'm not playing a duskwight so I don't have much to add there, but I wanted to give some RL info in response to...
So, um, I live in the southern US, and there's still a lot of racism both institutionalized and casual. It's a lot better in the cities, but there's still a lot of inherent segregation, cultural clash, and "white flight" down here, as well as casual racial tensions and slurs. It gets worse the further away from large population centers you go and, of course, the older people are (inculturation is hard to change). Among the young, it tends to be ignoring racist behaviors and not understanding how they could be considered racist, which is why we have programs like Bridge Builders and the like to try to break down those barriers. I'm not saying that it's not getting better (because we've come a long way from the Reconstruction era), but racism still exists down here.
How that applies to the game is that even if wildwood and duskwight have gotten to a better state of relations, there's still going to be some pretty strong bias and stereotypes, especially among the older members of the races. It'll be often institutionalized and casual rather than directly active, though, IMO.
I'm not playing a duskwight so I don't have much to add there, but I wanted to give some RL info in response to...(07-20-2013, 12:32 PM)LeCard Wrote: Eva, it could also be a simple matter of exposure. (not sure how many people in the topic are from the USA, or even more so the south) But something interesting that I have noticed that occurred in the real world is that when the U.S. ruled that segregation was illegal and everyone started to truly live side by side( most importantly I've noticed are the children growing up together), The racist ideas dissipated very quickly (in regards to generations it took to remove). Specifically the Children of today see the stories of racist ideas and occasionally someone on some news program being accused of being racist and they cannot even comprehend why someone would feel that way because they are surrounded by the other races and see that everyone is the same, the smart kids are smart the jocks are jocks etc. but there isn't a category that one race holds claim to.
So, um, I live in the southern US, and there's still a lot of racism both institutionalized and casual. It's a lot better in the cities, but there's still a lot of inherent segregation, cultural clash, and "white flight" down here, as well as casual racial tensions and slurs. It gets worse the further away from large population centers you go and, of course, the older people are (inculturation is hard to change). Among the young, it tends to be ignoring racist behaviors and not understanding how they could be considered racist, which is why we have programs like Bridge Builders and the like to try to break down those barriers. I'm not saying that it's not getting better (because we've come a long way from the Reconstruction era), but racism still exists down here.
How that applies to the game is that even if wildwood and duskwight have gotten to a better state of relations, there's still going to be some pretty strong bias and stereotypes, especially among the older members of the races. It'll be often institutionalized and casual rather than directly active, though, IMO.
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