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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 7031328" data-source="post: 8981770">I'm not sure how I feel about this change.  This might sound super weird, but as a mixed race kid growing up, a character like Tanis Half-Elven in Dragonlance had a bit of significance to me.  It actually sort of hit on how there can be two communities that never fully see you as necessarily part, except to maybe your closest friends and your family, but that doesn't make you any less important.  Maybe it's just the terminology "half" that they have an issue with, but are they going to remove any discussion mechanical or otherwise to mixed heritage?There's been a push I've seen to remove the idea of "the melting pot" in the States as well, which I also feel super weird about, especially when there's still to this day groups who weirdly believe that people should only marry within their own race and weird stuff like that (this mentality also unfortunately exists in some parts of minority groups as well).Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, and the younger generation who may be mixed race looks at it different.  I'm older than the main demographic they're aiming for these revised rules and I'm sure my experience is different, I won't rule out me being out of touch on this particular point, but still.  I'm a bit saddened if this aspect is removed from the books completely.</blockquote>