Yes! The thread was lost with the database collapse I think, but there was a *great* thread about "non barbarian barbarians". People came up with wonderful ideas about characters that has the barbarian class but weren't barbarians culturally, mostly by using backgrounds. I had the hermit background - my character was a wandering mandicant, a dervish. Someone had a soldier - someone with terrible PTSD. Another one had a soldier haunted by the ghosts of his mostly dead unit. A lot of possibilities.
And I think it's great we can have the noble-ranger, the scholar-ranger, the raised in a temple rogue etc etc. I LOVE backgrounds!