hidden racist agenda

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Coracle
Just what we needed. . .

A Politically Correct race-baiting thread by some guy obsessed with "diversity". All we need now is Al Sharpton to post.

The Diversity nuts won't be happy until they turn America in a disparate, polyglot mess like the Balkans.

Diversity?? No thanks.

E Pluribus Unum - Out of Many ONE.

America IS a disparate polyglot mess like the balkans. The difference is that the different etnic groups don´t declare war on each other

[Zoid]

Originally posted by zulu9812


Well, there's a difference between laid-back-not-wanting-to-go-to-civil-war and laid-back-being-a-nation-of-slackers.

I suppose I should just let it go, but it did seem somewhat offensive.

Well, he is american. They are offensive by nature Hell, they can´t even make beer that doesn´t taste like...well it doesn´t taste like anything really. Not to mention the vile crap they call whiskey...

[Akka]

I think that doing a whole thread on this subject in an on-topic forum is definitely overkill. This small thing is just a mecanism for God's sake !

All in all, I'm all for the way it works now. On an abstraction point of view, the culture faces represent for me the integration of people in my culture. Still having other faces in my cities after centuries would mean that I utterly failed to overcome the ghettoisation of my civ, and that the people were not assimilated nor integrated nor accepted in my population.
For me, the faces represent my CULTURE, not my ETHNICITY. My culture accept these foreigner, and assimilate them. It does not mean that they become uniformized, it means that my culture was made more rich and they melted into.

Still, making such loud noise about such a small problem is somehow ridiculous.

[nato]

I just want to say, that although I am for diversity, I am totally not for disunity. In fact, I would like much more unity than we have at present ...

I just mean I don't think diversity and unity have to be mutually exclusive ... I can see how they could tend to be, but I don't think they HAVE to be. You can be united on a higher level, yet appreciate diversity on a lower level.

About the Balkens, I would say they are not an example of diversity. Ethnic cleansing is an example of intolerance for people not like yourself, the opposite of diversity.

I do worry that multiculturalism can be divisive ... but I do not think there will ever be peace until all the little groups and divisions feel basically satisfied. In a way, I think things will need to be broken down to smaller parts, before they can be at peace and combine into larger wholes.

Just how I see it.

[AJ Corp. The FAIR]

Captain's cool

OK, the topic of the thread doesn't seem to appeal to most current posters so far ...

but that's not a fair reason to ridiculize the thread's starter.
Ridiculize is slightly exagerated, I admit, but Captain surely doesn't deserve some of the comments that were posted regarding his subject.

He just posted some thoughts.

If you remember correctly frequent Apoly users, Captain has also come up with some well considered other thoughts before.

So let's give him the respect he seems to have earned.

Fair?

Amen.

AJ

[Bella Hella]

thanks to the people who liked my idea (a simple change of clothing color to indicate that the people are now part of your civilization).

another idea - the "race" of your people wouldn't be dependent of whether you're the english or the zulus, but rather on WHERE YOU ARE GEOGRAPHICALLY. if you start near the equator, your people would be more dark-skinned, etc. i often thought it was kind of ridiculous when i started off as the zulu all the way up north in the tundra, and my people still looked like they had lived in the sun for millions of years. geography often determines culture, and definitely has an effect on the way people look. we adapt to our surroundings.

just a little food for thought...

[Andrew Cory]

Originally posted by zulu9812


Well, there's a difference between laid-back-not-wanting-to-go-to-civil-war and laid-back-being-a-nation-of-slackers.

I suppose I should just let it go, but it did seem somewhat offensive.

Right. I thought that might be the problem. I do appologize for my insensitivity. Let me further clarify that I in no way ment to imply that you are slackers, or work less hard than anyone else.

I should mention that as a Californian, we get the same rap (though how we could be the 5th largest economy in the world and full of slackers is beyond me).

Let me just say that when the phrase "laid back" was mentioned, the immediate mental immage I had was of a history textbook written about 500 years from now talking about the "great brittish mistake" that lost them the last bit of their empire. The immage was one of scottland lazing about on the couch instead of going to work. I didn't mean to imply that this would ever happen, or that the scotts were too lazy to work, but the immage was funny, and I tried to pass it along...

[zulu9812]

ah it's cool

[Andrew Cory]

Originally posted by Kamrat X


Well, he is american. They are offensive by nature Hell, they can´t even make beer that doesn´t taste like...well it doesn´t taste like anything really. Not to mention the vile crap they call whiskey...

Oh yeah? Well, your country of origion is no good. And you mispronounce the letter "z". *grin*

[wase]

This is just my two sense, but maybe the firaxian world is one where people don't see the racial differences around them and thus interbreed making a uniform people. You could say infact that the presence of multiple races (over very extended periods of time) show an integrated system of segregation with in the society if only at the social level (people A wont have children with people B). Anyway what does race matter, everything should be based on your ability to perform. My great alma mater, the univeristy of Michigan just shot down this concept of equality by negating the constitution because they believe that diversity (race-wise) helps people understand the world. Do we really need the govenment telling us there are differences among us?

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Andrew Cory


Oh yeah? Well, your country of origion is no good. And you mispronounce the letter "z". *grin*

Hey, Sweden rules! And what´s wrong with "zäta"? Sounds better than "zed"

[Zoid]

Just to post on topic. IMO Captain seems to have waay to much free time on his hands...

[Andrew Cory]

Originally posted by Kamrat X


Hey, Sweden rules! And what´s wrong with "zäta"? Sounds better than "zed"

Actualy, I assumed you were from an English speaking country, of which all but one use the letter "zed". I am from America, where we use the more propper "zee"...

[Akka]

Originally posted by wase
This is just my two sense, but maybe the firaxian world is one where people don't see the racial differences around them and thus interbreed making a uniform people. You could say infact that the presence of multiple races (over very extended periods of time) show an integrated system of segregation with in the society if only at the social level (people A wont have children with people B). Anyway what does race matter, everything should be based on your ability to perform.

That was exactly my point in my previous post.

[wase]

Sorry bro, I didn't read every post. But its good to see we are in agreement.