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[Scott Schultz]

>Maybe it's just the intertia of tradition.

To elaborate on this a bit further - The social scientists of the late 19th 
and early 20th century had their "melting pot" theory that justified the 
slums of New York. They felt that given sufficient time, the immigrants 
would become integrated into the greater American society and adopt American 
ideals and what-not.

While some of that certainly went on, I think it's pretty clear that the 
"melting pot" was mostly a big fantasy designed to support the slums as an 
institution that guaranteed a lot of cheap labor. The reality was that the 
varous ethnic groups did not "melt" into each other. Rather, they staked out 
their own territories and people sought out other with similar backgrounds 
to live, work and socialize with.

It may simply be that the slums of South Adrilankha exist because it's human 
nature for Easterners to congregate together and create an island of Eastern 
society in the middle of a foreign land. Joining the Tekla in order to gain 
some measure of respectability would probably be shown to be ineffective 
pretty quickly, given that Tekla themselves get precious little respect from 
the other Houses. Why bother, when staying in the slums at least lets you 
earn the respect of your own people?