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Posted - 2012.08.30 10:36:00 -
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Seriphyn Inhonores wrote:Amaki Mai wrote:I thought that the Achura, Deteis and Civire were different ethnicities? Both the Deteis and Civire are from a single planet with the same culture (relatively speaking). The Achura have no bearing on the fact that the Caldari State is still based upon the culture of that single planet in Luminaire.
Oddly enough, this is the exact same complaint that the Caldari homeworlders had about the Federation when they seceded from it - that its politics were dictated by the ethnic Gallentean majority. If memory serves, Gallenteans are still the largest ethnic group in the Federation by a large margin, and still have a controlling interest in the political process. It is, after all, still called "the Gallente Federation", rather than for example "The Federal United Star Systems" (the acronym for which would be FUSS - how apt!)
If you think the ethnocentric nature of the State is a matter of shame for us, then you're failing to grasp why it was founded in the first place. We wanted to live by OUR culture, OUR rules and OUR morals. If persons or cultures other than those of Caldari Prime descent find that their outlook on life is compatible with our own, then they can do perfectly well in the State and find themselves perfectly accepted.
Is there racial tension? Of course there is! Human nature is far too stubbornly stupid to eliminate such frippery. But in a Meritocracy, a manager who doesn't promote their people on merit, and instead promotes by ethnic group isn't doing their own job properly, and is setting themselves up to be replaced. For those with competence, skill and a good work ethic, you would be hard pressed to find a society with more opportunities for success than the State.For the incompetent, lazy and unproductive, the safety nets and vast expensive tax-funded institutions of the Federation may be more to their liking. We won't stop them from leaving, we just won't pay for their shuttle ticket either.
The whole point is that it's our society by choice, and we won't bomb you for trying to leave it.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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