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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 8984212" data-attributes="member: 891">I think you and I might be on the same page here.I'm multi-racial. In fact I'm more or less quatro-racial - ancestry tracing to Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America. I am that melting pot.Multi-culturalism is a very vital concern for me - we need to recognize and embrace cultural variety. BUT I am extremely against a lot of this 'appropriation' stuff because let's face it - if I take a breath of air I am appropriating someone according one of the 4 'ancestries' I come from... My very existence is appropriating somebody.It's like we got 'off message' on multi-culturalism and somehow turned it into a new form of segregation."Back in my day" it meant learning from the variety, recognizing, embracing, and sharing differences. Not making lines people who didn't belong in the club could not cross.I get and highly value 'don't disrespect other cultures'. But you don't do that by avoiding them, you do that by embracing, learning about, and sharing them.I'm in my 50s, so maybe I just 'don't get it' anymore... But when 'the kids' start telling people to stop partaking in the aspects of other cultures - they're telling them to segregate. And those are fighting words.I'm very concerned with 'where are they going with deleting the half-ancestries' from D&D. Just what is the message they are sending with that? The last time somebody told me 'don't let the races mix' was when I was dealing with a grandparent who had a bit too much Klan in him, 4 decades ago.But maybe they're just redesigning the mechanics of it - like how Pathfinder made it a 'background' you can take rather than it's own ancestry. If they go that route - then it's all good.If that's an actual quote - then somebody needs to get their behind over here and explain to my face just how my being alive is racist. I really hope that's a misquote.</blockquote>

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