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Halcyon Ember
Repracor Industries
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Posted - 2017.05.31 16:26:57 -
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Claudia Osyn wrote:Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Claudia Osyn wrote:I don't even know what I am anymore..... Gallente But, what even is that anymore? According to Charles, everything. Or Nothing. |
Charles Cambridge Schmidt
Schmidt's Sewing Suits and Spaceships
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Posted - 2017.05.31 17:27:43 -
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Elmund Egivand wrote:So, we should be calling you guys as 'Mongrels' and 'Semi-Mongrels' instead?
Only if I get to call you the same.
In honesty, calling me Gallente is fine. That's my nation that I live in. I'd prefer being called a Federal, but you can't always get what you want.
I don't care what you think, as long as it's about me.
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Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Kurilaivonen
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Posted - 2017.05.31 18:27:33 -
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Charles Cambridge Schmidt wrote: No amount of repeating the word "Gallente" for snarky comedic impact will change the fact that people are overly generalizing.
Yes, Gallente is an overly generalized word but the point is it is one that can be both quite general and quite specific -- it all depends on user, context, and intent as to what is meant.
It's just one of those things humans do once they learn object permanence and start doing informal set theory: abstract concepts like "Gallente" are given properties and attributes much like anything and everything else in the mental Venn diagrams.
Now as a broad identifier does, "Gallente" lack some semblance of informational complexity or specificity in and of itself? Sure, why not, but it's really no different to say, "Minmatar", "Amarr", or "Caldari" in terms of broad racial, cultural, and political descriptors people use. Those who use it or consider it for themselves will have a more complex and specific concept of what those words mean and what they apply to than those who don't. Outsiders will likely apply stereotypes as they think they fit.
Societies, cultures and civilizations are more complex than just a single word and associated stereotypes?
Well of course?
But on the count of being pots and kettles casting stones in glass houses about ignoring the underlying complexities of differing societal, cultural, racial, ethnic, religious or political narratives in favour of stereotypes that diminish and trivialize then we're pretty much all guilty of hypocrisy as far as I can tell.
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Halcyon Ember
Repracor Industries
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Posted - 2017.05.31 19:01:07 -
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I agree with ms Gesakaarin. I'm going to go and lie down. |
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