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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8374519" data-attributes="member: 58172">I assume most people dont use the word &quot;haughty&quot; to mean racist supremacist − but D&amp;D does!The descriptions about the elf being &quot;haughty&quot; are always in a context of (supremacist) superiority and (racist) purity. Even when the elf is feeling sorry for other races, it is racist supremacism. Yuck.To &quot;preserve the land&quot; sounds like ecoscience. Perhaps, Native Americans are more about autonomy, freedom, and preservation of sacred heritage. One can be proud of ones own culture without being distainful of other cultures. Native Americans seem good about this.When Native Americans preserve their tribal heritage, they are cherishing their self-identity. This is never &quot;haughty&quot;. They are just being themselves − who they are.Meh. It is normal for different communities to have conflictive needs, and require access to the same limited resource. That is why we negotiate and have legal systems that we hope are fair.I already said, speaking ones own language or dialect &quot;properly&quot; is good. It is the notion that other languages and other dialects are &quot;inferior&quot; that becomes the problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8374519, member: 58172"] I assume most people dont use the word "haughty" to mean racist supremacist − but D&D does! The descriptions about the elf being "haughty" are always in a context of (supremacist) superiority and (racist) purity. Even when the elf is feeling sorry for other races, it is racist supremacism. Yuck. To "preserve the land" sounds like ecoscience. Perhaps, Native Americans are more about autonomy, freedom, and preservation of sacred heritage. One can be proud of ones own culture without being distainful of other cultures. Native Americans seem good about this. When Native Americans preserve their tribal heritage, they are cherishing their self-identity. This is never "haughty". They are just being themselves − who they are. Meh. It is normal for different communities to have conflictive needs, and require access to the same limited resource. That is why we negotiate and have legal systems that we hope are fair. I already said, speaking ones own language or dialect "properly" is good. It is the notion that other languages and other dialects are "inferior" that becomes the problem. [/QUOTE]

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