[Dragaera] Does house discrimination=racism?

[Jeff]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Brazee" <howard at brazee.net>
Cc: <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Does house discrimination=racism?


> On 12:02 PM Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote:
> >  After reading these books for many years, racism against Easterners
> >  seems to be a common motif.
> >
> >  But then I got to thinking, what about racism within the Dragaerans
> >  themselves?
>
> I have to believe it is extremely pervasive - after all it is ingrained
> that there are very real biological differences between the character of
> people from various Dragaeran races.
>
> _______________________________________________


Hmm, so the violence inherent in the system (heh) may not be psychologically
based, but biologically based due to different species competing in the same
ecosystem for resources. Thus the characteristic behaviors may be a
combination of genetic traits, and survivability traits to fit in specific
ecological niches (which amounts to almost the same thing).

jeff